self-consecration

[ self-kon-si-krey-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act of setting oneself to a task or vocation without ordination by others or by a religious body.

Example Sentences

This is to say that “Deadpool” is the most insolent example of where the comic-book movie has been headed: anti-serious, acutely aware of its genre’s clichés, arguably satirical, increasingly repulsed by self-consecration and committed to fun.

From New York Times

In 2016, all of that passionate self-consecration has built hip-hop into America’s dominant pop idiom.

From Washington Post

But their not-unjustified self-consecration neuters Ms. Estefan’s artistry and erases its 1980s musical context.

From New York Times

What touches us most deeply is some mark of self-consecration and humility; as, for example, when Newton tells us that after all his life's labors he felt himself as a little child gathering sea-shells on the shore of the great ocean of truth; or when Alfred Russel Wallace, discovering that Darwin had been working longer than himself over the theory of the origin of species, generously withdrew and permitted the theory to go to the world in Darwin's name.

From Project Gutenberg

I am aware that it is possible for a society to be so corrupted, so given up to the admiration of imitations, of the paint and powder and silk-stocking-clad-ankle kind of love, that true and genuine love interest, with its impulse to self-sacrifice and self-consecration, is no longer felt or understood.

From Project Gutenberg