consecrate
verb (used with object)
to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity.
were consecrating
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past progressiveof consecrate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Don't look when you come into a room as if you were consecrating it to tears.
From The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
One summer Sabbath afternoon, three years after the grasshopper raid of dreadful memory, Asher came again to the little grave in the Grass River graveyard where other graves were consecrating the valley in other hearts.
From Winning the Wilderness by J. N. Marchand
Do the Romans expect us to believe that all their prelates in the time of the Renaissance had a perfect intention when they were consecrating?
From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie
