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Definition
make holy by means of religious rites
- I didn't know any name for what I'd seen until some years afterward in Atlanta, when I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.Book 1 — Genesis (3% in)
- A little farther on we find this promise: 'If the first handful of dough is consecrated, the whole mass is, and if the root of a tree is consecrated, so are its branches.Book 3 — Judges (49% in)
- A little farther on we find this promise: 'If the first handful of dough is consecrated, the whole mass is, and if the root of a tree is consecrated, so are its branches.Book 3 — Judges (49% in)
There are no more uses of "consecrate" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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