Usage examples (19)

• When the Maccabees reconsecrated the ancient Temple (Chanukah means "reconsecration") they emptied it of all images -- in this case, the Hellenistic statues celebrating...
• And so the Ebenezer of the soul becomes both a thanksgiving and a reconsecration.
• In such legends may be recognised the propagation of Hinduism by the Rajput adventurers and the reconsecration of the aboriginal shrines to its deities.
• Instead of taking them from the service for the visitation of the sick, the most logical source, he had borrowed most of the language from a prayer for the...