consecrate
verb (used with object)
to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity.
has consecrated
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present perfectof consecrate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Now Ms. Reid works at the church as a pastoral associate and distributes the bread to others at Mass after the priest has consecrated it.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2021
At first, Gerard is obdurate, refusing to confess to trumped-up charges of treason, or even believe that the party to which he has consecrated his life is behind his bewildering plight.
From Time Magazine Archive
All these circumstances reared for him an astonishing reputation, which his fall has consecrated.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
But the Akonoshioni, or Iroquois, has consecrated the early history of Western New-York.
From An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem by William H. C. (William Howe Cuyler) Hosmer
She will have gained in this, the great cause to which she has consecrated her life, a substantial victory.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
