extreme unction

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Accepting it, he joked: "I knew that being made a Saoi... is extreme unction; it is a final anointment - Aosdana's last rites."

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2015

The movie is a dewy valentine in funeral time, a last rite administered with extreme unction.

From Time • May 24, 2013

By special dispensation from Rome, all Catholic aum?niers and other front-line priests may hear confession, give extreme unction, sing mass at portable altars, at any time under any conditions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the priest was allowed to administer extreme unction.

From Time Magazine Archive

“It does not mean anything. They give extreme unction to anyone who is seriously ill,” Mama whispered, when Papa and Father Benedict left.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie