All 7 Uses of

consecrate
in
Jane Eyre

Mr. Reed had been dead nine years: it was in this chamber he breathed his last; here he lay in state; hence his coffin was borne by the undertaker's men; and, since that day, a sense of dreary consecration had guarded it from frequent intrusion.†
p. 17.7

Happening to call one evening when Celine did not expect me, I found her out; but it was a warm night, and I was tired with strolling through Paris, so I sat down in her boudoir; happy to breathe the air consecrated so lately by her presence.†
p. 165.9

consecrated = made holy by means of religious rites

No, — I exaggerate; I never thought there was any consecrating virtue about her: it was rather a sort of pastille perfume she had left; a scent of musk and amber, than an odour of sanctity.†
p. 165.9 *

I felt the consecration of its loneliness: my eye feasted on the outline of swell and sweep — on the wild colouring communicated to ridge and dell by moss, by heath-bell, by flower-sprinkled turf, by brilliant bracken, and mellow granite crag.†
p. 402.9

One morning, being left alone with him a few minutes in the parlour, I ventured to approach the window-recess — which his table, chair, and desk consecrated as a kind of study — and I was going to speak, though not very well knowing in what words to frame my inquiry — for it is at all times difficult to break the ice of reserve glassing over such natures as his — when he saved me the trouble by being the first to commence a dialogue.†
p. 406.0

consecrated = made holy by means of religious rites

But as it is, either our union must be consecrated and sealed by marriage, or it cannot exist: practical obstacles oppose themselves to any other plan.†
p. 467.7

Definitions:

(1) (consecrate)
make holy by means of religious rites
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

A comprehensive dictionary will contain less common senses of the word including "to solemnly dedicate" or to "infuse with reverence".