self-consecration

American  

[self-kon-si-krey-shuhn] / ˈsɛlf kɒn sɪˈkreɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the act of setting oneself to a task or vocation without ordination by others or by a religious body.

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Example Sentences

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

But in the others it resulted in a self-consecration whose outlook was chiefly upon the next world, and in the present was doubtfully bounded by possible martyrdom and possible evasion or escape.

From John Knox by Innes, A. Taylor

However he might desire nothing in life save self-consecration to work, he could not even achieve that much without reinforcing his own strength by means that were unexceptionable and honourable.

From An Engagement of Convenience A Novel by Zangwill, Louis