as in purification
the act of making something holy through religious ritual the consecration of the Host during Communion

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Recent Examples of consecration The next day, Sunday December 8, will see the first mass and consecration of the new altar. Chris Morris, Fortune Europe, 29 Nov. 2024 Macron will return on Dec. 7 to deliver another address and will attend the consecration of the new altar during a Mass the following day. Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024 Macron is scheduled to speak at the reopening ceremony and is expected to attend the consecration as well. Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024 After the modern-day restoration, Macron will return on Dec. 7 to deliver an address and attend the consecration of the new altar during a solemn Mass the following day. Keir Simmons, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for consecration 
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Noun
  • Data cleaning goes by many names—including data scrubbing, data purification, data refinement and data validation—all of which refer to the process of preparing data for analysis by identifying and correcting errors, inconsistencies and irrelevant or redundant information.
    John Case, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • What's next: Windmill wants to roll out more new air care products due for a modern redesign, which could fall into heating or cooling or purification and filtration, Danny Mayer says.
    Kimberly Chin, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Did Johnny Cash give Dylan his blessing to go ahead with his electric set?
    Brady Gerber, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The Muppets Disney owning the Muppets is an absolute blessing for Kingdom Hearts.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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  • But Ii her death allows for her sanctification, the film doesn’t quite know how to represent her life.
    Alessa Dominguez, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
  • This sanctification was a crucial step in including medicine as its own advanced degree program at the first universities that were established around 1200 in Europe.
    Meg Leja, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023

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“Consecration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consecration. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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