Anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual.
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Examples for "unction "
Examples for "unction "
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.
1 Bonet mentions death after the inunction of a mercurial ointment, and instances of distressing salivation from such medication are quite common.
2 Pain caused by the stretching of the skin may be relieved by the inunction of the skin with cottonseed or cocoanut oil.
3 Inunctions of codliver oil were at first used, but with little improvement.
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