consecration

In regard to her children, Mrs. Worthington had passed through a deep consecration.

Anselm, on his part, agreed that no prelate should be refused consecration who was nominated by the King.

But it was an institution too enlightened for its age; and family and civic ties were destined for a far nobler consecration.

The two candidates for royalty knelt upon cushions and received from His Holiness the oils and imperial consecration.

Now this perfection is described through out the Epistle as a priestly consecration.