A semisolid preparation intended for external application to the skin or mucous membranes. (source: UMLS)
Smug self-serving earnestness.
Anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual.
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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