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Meanings of flattering unction in English

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Usage of flattering unction in English
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What flattering unction that is to the soul of a ruined man.
Great Possessions
2
But let no man lay that flattering unction to his soul.
David: Five Sermons
3
We must not now apply the flattering unction of servile compliance or blind complaisance.
Standard Selections / A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Pr...
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But he had greatly mistaken the course of events, in applying that ' flattering unction.'
The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific
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Did Grace Hilland lay this flattering unction to her soul?
His Sombre Rivals
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Dear, even in the abstract, is such flattering unction always no doubt to the soul!
Complete Prose Works / Specimen Days and Collect, November Bough...
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Anyhow, I consoled myself for hours of misery by laying that flattering unction to my soul.
Set in Silver
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F.-Don'tlay the flattering unction to your soul.
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
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He laid no flattering unction to his soul that he had done his best while another way remained untried.
The Half-Hearted
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She wanted une ame sincere et candide; and Paul laid the flattering unction to his own sincere and candid soul.
The Fortunate Youth
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Lay not that flattering unction to your soul;
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
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His heart, big with love, with self-denial, and with hopes of a fair future, would have this flattering unction laid to it.
For the Term of His Natural Life
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And having laid this flattering unction to his soul, the old man felt no malice against our boy for outshining his own sons.
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
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For example, let us not "lay the flattering unction to our souls" that this spirit is solely the reaction of the great war.
The Constitution of the United States / A Brief Study of the Gen...
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'You do not suppose that I laid such flattering unction to my soul?'
Uncle Max
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"Oh, no, I cannot lay that flattering unction to my soul," he returned.
Herb of Grace
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