Difference between Vow and Consecrate

Vow

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make a vow. To declare publicly that one made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order. A declaration or assertion.

Example sentence: Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Consecrate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To declare, or otherwise make something holy.