Unction is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for UNCTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• anointing as a rite of consecration or healing
• the action of anointing someone with oil or ointment as a religious rite or as a symbol of investiture as a monarch.
• treatment with a medicinal oil or ointment.
• an ointment
• a fervent manner of expression apparently arising from deep emotion, especially when assumed
• act of anointing with oil in sacramental ceremonies
• The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, mercurial unction.
• That which is used for anointing; an unguent; an ointment; hence, anything soothing or lenitive.
• Divine or sanctifying grace.
• That quality in language, address, or the like, which excites emotion; especially, strong devotion; religious fervor and tenderness; sometimes, a simulated, factitious, or unnatural fervor.
• excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm
• smug self-serving earnestness
• 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of anointing

Words related to UNCTION

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How to use UNCTION in a sentence

• But let no man lay that flattering unction to his soul.
• Mother, for the love of grace Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.
• The serfs are called upon, with much unction, to appreciate and recognize the considerable sacrifices which the nobility have made on their behalf.
• In the railing is an iron gate with a night bell for Extreme Unction.
• The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office, and as priest by trade.
• The friends of the young Henry could appeal to his innocence, to his sacred unction, and to his recognition by Holy Church.
• Its original object had been to invite prayers in behalf of a departing soul, and to summon the priest, if he had had no other admonition, to his last duty of extreme unction.
• The touching ceremony of Extreme Unction made a deep impression on me.
• Fulfill my dream, O Jesus, since I sigh Of love to die! A few days later Therese grew worse, and on July 30 she received Extreme Unction.
• The old man, he says, joined the sacraments of marriage and extreme unction.
• Scarcely had I crossed the threshold of my house than I was called on to visit the sick man a second time, and give him extreme unction.
• But in the Old Law there was no sacrament corresponding to Confirmation and Extreme Unction.
• It would be impossible for me to give the harangue of that queer old lady, the unction, the comical postures would be lost on paper.
• He obeyed with unction and with gestures like lightning as it flashes across a night sky.
• In his earlier days Tim had been ready to smash a wheel or lose one, to demand right of way with profane unction, and to back his word with whip, fist, or bale-hook.
• We are told with much unction and warmth that science means to know.
• And God has chosen her, a young, ignorant peasant maid, to lead him, through the ranks of his enemies, to Reims, where he shall receive the unction poured upon Saint Louis.
• He called upon the rich landowner, the Marquis de Chavanes, on purpose to deliver himself with joyful unction of solemn platitudes about the inscrutable ways of Providence.
• The tabernacle, as soon as it was completed, was consecrated to God by the unction of oil.
• Any consolation to be derived from religion, even the office of confessor and extreme unction, in case of dissolution, are denied them.
• So be humble, and lay not this honor with too much unction to your heart.
• He had been sent for during the night to administer extreme unction to a dying half-breed girl thirteen miles away.
• The recitation was very spirited, each party telling about its deeds with extraordinary unction.
• Father Beibler is carrying a cup of water up to a tepee where an old Indian lies dying, to whom he is giving extreme unction.
• Before the company sat he delivered a long grace with much unction.
• I had seen extreme unction administered as I had seen many another office of the church in my dim days, with scarcely any attention.
• Their every effort, Father, crown with power, And all their utterance with Thy unction dower.
• We must not lay the flattering unction to our souls that the proclamation will be of any use if we are beaten and have a dissolution of the Union.
• She is such an elusive person that I spend all my time in wooing her, and can never lay flattering unction to my soul that she is really won.

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