consecration

1. 1.

   a solemn commitment of your life or your time to some cherished purpose (to a service or a goal)

   “his consecration to study”

   Broadercommitment
2. 2.

   (religion) sanctification of something by setting it apart (usually with religious rites) as dedicated to God

   “the Cardinal attended the consecration of the church”

   Broadersanctification

   religion

Other forms of consecration

plural

consecrations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about consecration

What does consecration mean?

consecration means "a solemn commitment of your life or your time to some cherished purpose (to a service or a goal)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in consecration?

consecration has 4 syllables: con-se-cra-tion. The stress falls on "cra". In IPA it is /ˌkɑnsəˈkɹeɪʃən/.

Is consecration a common word?

consecration is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with consecration?

1 word rhymes with consecration. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.