self-consecration

American  

[self-kon-si-krey-shuhn] / ˈsɛlf kɒn sɪˈkreɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the act of setting oneself to a task or vocation without ordination by others or by a religious body.

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Example Sentences

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

The sacerdotal pride, the subjective joys of self-consecration, the mental luxury of feeling himself different from others, singled out, set apart,—all the Pharisee, in short, in Julius March,—was sick to death.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas

Thus panoplied with mail of self-consecration to an ideal, Esther Randolph met and withstood the suit of Oswald Langdon.

From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Lee, Carson Jay