sacration
sacration noun: a coronation or consecration.
Noun
sacration (countable and uncountable, plural sacrations)
- A coronation or consecration.
- He was not certain whether the pious donations of the eleventh century were sacrations to God or the Devil, but he was quite certain that the patrimony of the Crown was as much sacratum as the revenue of the Church.1890, William Arthur Shaw, Minutes of the Manchester Presbyterian Classis. [1646-1660]
- Transcendence is the key characteristic of the sacration model — the world is suffused with the divine. Optimism is strong, since sacration is an evolutionary process.1976, Robert Bundy, Images of the future: the twenty-first century and beyond, page 179
Forms of sacration
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Origin of sacration
From Latin sacrātiō(n) (“dedication, consecration”).
Questions about sacration
- What does sacration mean?
- Sacration means a coronation or consecration.
- What part of speech is sacration?
- Sacration is a noun.
- What is the plural of sacration?
- The plural of sacration is sacrations.
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