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Meanings of unction in English
Catalan
obsequiositat Spanish
exagerado elogio Synonyms
Examples for "balm"
Examples for "balm"
1
The smile will succeed the frown; the balm will follow the rod.
2
There was balm in the barb for all the wound it made.
3
Now he didn't want her any longer, but his vanity wanted balm.
4
The very injustice of the thing was its balm in this case.
5
Nivea's balm will soothe irritable skin and prevent future flare-ups from occurring.
1
Part the hair in different places and rub ointment into the scalp.
2
It's best to use a hand cream or ointment in the winter.
3
The altar of gold, and the ointment, and the incense of spices:
4
Dr Williamson was calling for use of the ointment to be regulated.
5
Yes; but suppose she had left the ointment in the unbroken vase?
1
Whichever salve you choose, noticeable improvement to skin health can be expected.
2
It helps salve the pain, with jellyfish stings and with sea urchins.
3
I said something ineffectual, to salve my conscience, and we carried on.'
4
The herb juice in the clever sorceress's salve proved the best remedy.
5
He unscrewed the top and took out some of the salve inside.
1
That is the open wound for which Austria seeks balsam from Turkey.
2
The crisp air came laden with the perfume of spruce and balsam.
3
Black spruce and balsam and cedar glistened as if bathed in enamel.
4
Hæmatoxylin and carmine preparations may be mounted either in glycerine or balsam.
5
Another stripped a pile of boughs from a balsam for the beds.
1
She's all over coated up with some unguent from a plastic bottle.
2
A minute sufficed to extract a portion of the unguent-like substance.
3
A bitter-smelling, stinging unguent was applied to her wounds, which were bound swiftly.
4
At least you could use some of the unguent Treia made up for burns.
5
It implies that an unguent you put on your skin will change your biology.
Usage of unction in English
1
In that time I must receive the extreme unction of the Church.
2
A person thus set apart receives the unction of the Holy One.
3
The President pronounced the last sentence with oratorical unction, and around him.
4
And I was certainly not the last to begin-especially at extreme unction.
5
You can put more savor and unction into it than I can.
6
The solemn unction with which he pronounced this twaddle is beyond description.
7
What flattering unction that is to the soul of a ruined man.
8
And the banker took Alice's hand and pressed it with great unction.
9
Krook almost smacks his lips with the unction of a horrible interest.
10
She confessed three days before, took the sacrament, and received extreme unction.
11
Stay here, and I'll be back at once with the extreme unction.
12
But I discovered that I was being summoned to perform extreme unction.
13
The reverend gentleman, as he greeted Chiltern, pronounced his name with unction.
14
Extreme unction was administered immediately afterwards; and the holy viaticum directly.
15
The shirt and the gloves touched by the holy unction must be burned.
16
Thus spake Jacob the Apostle concerning the unction of the sick.
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