as in purification
the act of making something holy through religious ritual
the consecration of the Host during Communion
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Recent Examples of consecration
The Vatican’s doctrine office went above and beyond the minimum sanctions foreseen by the church’s canon law to respond to the consecrations Wednesday of four new bishops at the society’s Econe, Switzerland, seminary.
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ABC News,
2 July 2026
The latest consecrations could prompt Pope Leo to end the Vatican's decades of dialogue with the breakaway society.
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Noah Labelle,
NPR,
2 July 2026
The consecrations had posed a crisis for Leo because the American pope has stressed the need for church unity.
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Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
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ABC News,
2 July 2026
The latest consecrations could prompt Pope Leo to end the Vatican's decades of dialogue with the breakaway society.
—
Noah Labelle,
NPR,
2 July 2026
The consecrations had posed a crisis for Leo because the American pope has stressed the need for church unity.
—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for consecration
Noun
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Potential applications include purifying pyrolysis oil produced from waste plastics, recovering industrial solvents used in battery manufacturing, pharmaceutical purification, and biofuel production.
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Temazcal is a traditional sweat lodge used for physical and spiritual purification.
Noun
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For Witt, signing with The Black Effect Podcast Network was a major blessing.
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This year's festival just happens to land exactly on the Fourth of July, a coincidence Patti Mangan, the executive director of the Fillmore Merchants Association, believed was a blessing.
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After Fuqua does interesting work sowing seeds of folly amid the star’s glorious rise, the movie gives up and turns to total sanctification.
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This sanctification was a crucial step in including medicine as its own advanced degree program at the first universities that were established around 1200 in Europe.
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“Consecration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consecration. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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