consecrate
verb (used with object)
to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity.
had consecrated
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past perfectof consecrate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He cited the examples of two traditionalist bishops he had consecrated "despite the fact that I have been ordaining women to the priesthood since I first became Bishop for Stepney in 1996".
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2015
His own family’s blood had consecrated the Union, and he would not allow anything or anyone—he thought in just these apocalyptic terms—to threaten the thing he held dearest.
From Time ● Feb. 15, 2014
That the Pope had made the visit anyway, noted the official, signified that Paul had "consecrated the Vatican II decree on ecumenism, which finally recognized 'the others' as churches in their own right."
From Time Magazine Archive
His first departure into the interior of Africa was from Cape Town, in 1840, and for more than thirty-three years he spent his life in the arduous work to which he had consecrated himself.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Yet they did not abandon themselves to an unmanly despair; but, with heroic constancy, they prepared to die like martyrs for the good cause to which they had consecrated their lives.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
