Definition of Reconsecrate

1. Verb. Consecrate anew, as after a desecration.

Generic synonyms: Bless, Consecrate, Hallow, Sanctify

Definition of Reconsecrate

1. v. t. To consecrate anew or again.

Definition of Reconsecrate

1. Verb. consecrate again ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reconsecrate

1. consecrate [v -CRATED, -CRATING, -CRATES] - See also: consecrate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reconsecrate

reconnoitering
reconnoiterings
reconnoiters
reconnoitre
reconnoitred
reconnoitres
reconnoitring
reconoiter
reconquer
reconquered
reconquering
reconquers
reconquest
reconquests
recons
reconsecrate (current term)
reconsecrated
reconsecrates
reconsecrating
reconsecration
reconsecrations
reconsenting
reconsider
reconsideration
reconsiderations
reconsidered
reconsidering
reconsiders
reconsign
reconsigned

Literary usage of Reconsecrate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Official Report of the Proceedings of the ... Republican National Convention (1916)
"... but, more important than that, we are to remake and reunite and reconsecrate this Republican Party that saved the Union. (Cheers and applause. ..."

2. The Work of the Holy Spirit by Abraham Kuyper (1900)
"He that caused the hurt must also heal it. He that destroyed must also restore the things destroyed. He that desecrated the holy must also reconsecrate it. ..."

3. Official Report of the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Republican National by reporter George L Hart, George L. Hart (1916)
"... but, more important than that, we are to remake and reunite and reconsecrate this Republican Party that saved the Union. (Cheers and applause. ..."

4. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)
"Decent people wouldn't attend service there for a long time, and the Bishop had to be sent for to reconsecrate the church. That's the tradition as I used to ..."

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