self-consecration
Americannoun
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the act of setting oneself to a task or vocation without ordination by others or by a religious body.
Example Sentences
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In 2016, all of that passionate self-consecration has built hip-hop into America’s dominant pop idiom.
From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2016
But their not-unjustified self-consecration neuters Ms. Estefan’s artistry and erases its 1980s musical context.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2015
Her craziest act of self-consecration occurred after the death of her son, when she arranged herself into a tableau of divine anguish.
From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2011
Faithlessness towards herself had been passed over unrecognized, faithlessness towards his self-consecration was quite otherwise.
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
The sacerdotal pride, the subjective joys of self-consecration, the mental luxury of feeling himself different from others, singled out, set apart,—all the Pharisee, in short, in Julius March,—was sick to death.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas
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