self-consecration
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
They took up the cause of the negro in a spirit of religious self-consecration.
From The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly
On her serious brow and in her maidenly soul there was self-consecration, and peace.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
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