CONSECRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consecration mean? 

• CONSECRATION (noun)
  The noun CONSECRATION has 2 senses:

1. a solemn commitment of your life or your time to some cherished purpose (to a service or a goal)

2. (religion) sanctification of something by setting it apart (usually with religious rites) as dedicated to God

  Familiarity information: CONSECRATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSECRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A solemn commitment of your life or your time to some cherished purpose (to a service or a goal)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

his consecration to study

Hypernyms ("consecration" is a kind of...):

allegiance; commitment; dedication; loyalty (the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action)

Derivation:

consecrate (dedicate to a deity by a vow)

consecrate (give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause)

consecrate (appoint to a clerical posts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(religion) sanctification of something by setting it apart (usually with religious rites) as dedicated to God

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the Cardinal attended the consecration of the church

Hypernyms ("consecration" is a kind of...):

sanctification (a religious ceremony in which something is made holy)

Domain category:

faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)

Derivation:

consecrate (render holy by means of religious rites)

consecrate (dedicate to a deity by a vow)

consecrate (appoint to a clerical posts)

 Context examples 

Mr. Reed had been dead nine years: it was in this chamber he breathed his last; here he lay in state; hence his coffin was borne by the undertaker's men; and, since that day, a sense of dreary consecration had guarded it from frequent intrusion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I felt the consecration of its loneliness: my eye feasted on the outline of swell and sweep—on the wild colouring communicated to ridge and dell by moss, by heath-bell, by flower-sprinkled turf, by brilliant bracken, and mellow granite crag.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)