consecrate
verb (used with object)
to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity.
reconsecrate
-
a word derived from
consecrate.
Example Sentences
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In the second version, relayed by the rabbis of the Talmud hundreds of years later, a single vial of purified oil, used to reconsecrate the Temple menorah, miraculously lasts for eight nights.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2023
Decent people wouldn't attend service there for a long time, and the Bishop had to be sent for to reconsecrate the church.
From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
To keep it, to recover it, to reconsecrate it, was the ambition of her heart; this was one of the many reasons why Providence had judged her worthy of having so wonderful a child.
From The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by Henry James
Roughly, impetuously, he gathered her in his arms and kissed her, as though he would once more re-knit and reconsecrate the bond between them.
From The Marriage of William Ashe by Mrs. Humphry Ward
This friendship appears likely to continue, for the Serbian authorities, so far from countenancing such pranks as that of the pig's head, do not even propose to reconsecrate their ancient church of Petka.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein
