extreme unction

Example Sentences

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If I were diagnosing democracy right now in America, it is in a state of extreme unction.

From Salon

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

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

From Time

Another woman grinned with pride when she correctly answered that “extreme unction” is what Catholics used to call the Anointing of the Sick, part of the Last Rites.

From New York Times

The last confession which she made previous to receiving extreme unction reminds me of all the difficulty we had long ago experienced in persuading her to make her first.

From Project Gutenberg