consecration

• They reveal a self-consecration which is absolute, and yet which is so spontaneous and glad as to be self-sustaining; so that Christ needed no other support in serving the Father than simply the opportunity of such service. —  Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn
• The delay in his consecration was due to a disagreement between King Henry II. —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See
• As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor, or hundred As to that on the Plestor The late Vicar stubb'd and burnt it when he was way-warden, regardless of the remonstrances of the bystanders, who interceded in vain for its preservation, urging its power and efficacy, and alleging that it had been Religione patrum multos servata per annos I am, etc LETTER XXIX SELBORNE, Feb. —  The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
• As a Christian of rarest purity and consecration, and as a hero whose fame has filled two hemispheres, "His name shall be had in everlasting remembrance." —  General Gordon Saint and Soldier
• We remembered the little boy who had been the occasion of all this pleasant conversation, and prayed that his consecration might be accepted, and the sign and seal of it be owned and blessed to him and his parents. —  Bertha and Her Baptism

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