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The term consecrate frequently serves as a vehicle for imbuing objects, actions, or even lives with a sense of sacred purpose. In literary works, it appears as both a literal ritual act, such as sanctifying altars or ordaining priests ([1], [2], [3]), and a metaphor for personal dedication and immortalization, like pledging one’s life to a cause or memory ([4], [5], [6]). At times it enlarges its scope from formal religious ceremonies to the act of honoring legacies or marking transformative moments ([7], [8], [9]). In each instance, consecrate elevates what might otherwise be mundane into something hallowed, transforming physical spaces and lives into sites of reverence and significance ([10], [11]).
  1. And thou shalt consecrate the hands of them all, and shalt sanctify them, that they may do the office of priesthood unto me. 28:42.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  2. And shall consecrate to the Lord the days of his separation, offering a lamb of one year for sin:
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  3. And thus shalt thou purify and consecrate them for an oblation of the Lord: for as a gift they were given me by the children of Israel.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  4. Let the day therefore be fixed; and on it I will consecrate myself, in life or death, to the happiness of my cousin.”
    — from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  5. Chase away your idle fears; to you alone do I consecrate my life, and my endeavours for contentment.
    — from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  6. Where are the young men who will consecrate their best years, their ambitions and their enthusiasms to the welfare of their native land?
    — from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal
  7. To thee neither hands build, nor lips consecrate: but hearts, through ages, are faithful to thy worship.
    — from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
  8. How could Philip condemn his predecessor, and yet consecrate his memory?
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  9. For to what but to felicity should men consecrate themselves, were felicity a goddess?
    — from The City of God, Volume I by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine
  10. This day let all things ready wait Mine eldest son to consecrate.”
    — from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
  11. I told the king that we would like to consecrate the place, 298 and to set up a cross there.
    — from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 by Antonio Pigafetta

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