consecrates
Meaning of consecrates
- make or declare (something, typically a church) sacred; dedicate formally to a religious purpose.
the present Holy Trinity church was consecrated in 1845
late Middle English: from Latin consecrat- ‘dedicated, devoted as sacred’, from the verb consecrare, from con- (expressing intensive force) + sacrare ‘dedicate’, from sacer ‘sacred’.
Information about consecrates
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of consecrates is: consecrate.
- Languages in which consecrates is used:
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Hyphenation of consecrates
con-se-crates
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- consecrates is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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