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unction::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fulsomeness, smarm |
| Type of | compliment |
unction::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | inunction |
| Type of | anointing, religious ceremony, religious ritual, anointment |
unction::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | balm, ointment, salve, unguent |
| Type of | therapeutic, remedy, curative, cure |
| Has types | mercurial ointment, sacramental oil, zinc ointment, arnica, baby oil, balsam, carron oil, cerate, chrism, chrisom, holy oil, lip balm, mentholated salve |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unctuousness |
| Type of | hypocrisy |
Examples of unction
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He can visit the sick and perform extreme unction, which can help priests in their ministry.
From the economist.com
It enables him to be human, of flesh and weakness, not lubricated unction and glossy smarm.
From the washingtonpost.com
Its mission to obtain some smart unction now available through your friendly local pharmacists.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Unction is another term for anointing.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The novel has been receiving extreme unction for 20 years, the short story is the waif of literature, perennially searching for a home.
From the time.com
We forbid abbots and monks to impose public penances, to visit the sick, to administer extreme unction, and to sing public masses.
From the en.wikipedia.org
On the other hand, if the economy finally catches fire, investors will conclude that the Fed's extreme unction will eventually be withdrawn.
From the businessweek.com
His wife pleaded he could be administered the Catholic Ritual of extreme unction, but the French prevented it and killed him like an animal.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm
- Fulsomeness: smug self-serving earnestness
- Ointment: semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
- Anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual
- To anoint is to pour or smear with perfumed oil, milk, water, melted butter or other substances, a process employed ritually by many religions. People and things are anointed to symbolize the introduction of a sacramental or divine influence, a holy emanation, spirit, power or god. ...
- A salve or ointment; a religious or ceremonial anointing; a balm or something that soothes; a smug, exaggerated use of language; smarminess
- The sacrament of absolution of sins performed by a priest for a person who is sick or at the point of death, sometimes called "extreme unction"; can also be used more generally for any rite which entails anointing with oil for religious purposes
- [1 Jn 2:20] Richness of gracious affections; divine or sanctifying grace. ********Administered by God, not men.[author]
- (Jo1 2:20, Jo1 2:27; R.V., "anointing"). Kings, prophets, and priests were anointed, in token of receiving divine grace. All believers are, in a secondary sense, what Christ was in a primary sense, "the Lord's anointed."
