consecrate

She was buried on an island in the Spencers' Althorp estate, rather than a graveyard - and the book describes how a bishop was brought to consecrate the ground to make it possible.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“It is defined by our congregants and by the strength of our shared purpose. Our crisis, our grief, our loss also contains within it the seeds of a rebirth that we consecrate this evening.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026

Capote perfectly captures the sacramental quality of the holiday—how, through the exhaustive labor of polishing and scrubbing, we consecrate the routine rooms of daily existence into a sanctuary for celebration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Does Ocean fortify and consecrate his work by refusing to put more of it into the world?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2023

At church he has the power to forgive sins and consecrate the host.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

An America that euphemizes this grievance as a matter of “race relations,” and in the process consecrates race as a natural category, is an America that still isn’t confronting its reality.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2016

In her exaltation of women, she purifies and consecrates their desires.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 30, 2015

Male domination in the leadership of the Church of England is coming to an end, as the 500-year-old institution consecrates its first female bishop.

From Time ● Jan. 26, 2015

In its most traditional form, the priest consecrates the bread and wine in a whisper with his back to the congregation: anathema to those who think openness is the spirit of the age.

From Economist ● Dec. 13, 2012

And how then can we justify the cult which every civilised man consecrates to the mighty spirits—philosophers, poets, artists, and heroes—who added so much to the moral fund of humanity?

From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

Bishop Krzysztof Wętkowski, who consecrated the statue, said "many contemporary people look only to the earth"

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

On Wednesday, however, the group went ahead and consecrated the four bishops in a Mass in Switzerland before thousands of followers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Presiding over the service was Cardinal Robert Prevost, who is now Pope Leo XIV and whose devotion to Guadalupe is such that he was consecrated as a bishop 11 years ago this Dec. 12.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

It consecrated a swathe of measures, including climate finance and resilience goals, to help those who are least responsible for warming but often hardest hit.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

Clara was the one in whom she confided her most subtle feelings, and to her she consecrated her enormous capacity for sacrifice and veneration.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The Vatican declared a formal schism with the Society of St. Pius X, excommunicating its bishops and priests for consecrating four bishops without papal consent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Decades after triggering a rift with the Vatican by consecrating bishops in 1988, the Society of Saint Pius X is doing it again on Wednesday in defiance of Pope Leo XIV.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Later that evening, Rocky himself made an appearance, effectively consecrating his own corner of the fair and Design.Space as a whole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025

As the song came into bloom, an Eddie Vedder-shaped shadow led what felt like a secular hymnal consecrating the proceedings.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024

After dinner we all went to the front room where the priest took a small book from his jacket to recite some prayers, consecrating our house and our family.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez