consecrate
verb (used with object)
to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I am consecrating body, mind and soul to the task now of saving the Union, an inheritance priceless and glorious to millions yet unborn.
From The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis by Thomas Dixon