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

“As your holy apostles anointed many who were sick so may those who in faith receive this holy unction be made whole. Allen, can you please rub a drop of oil on the patient’s forehead?”

From The Guardian

Over the years, he proposed his own nouns of multitude, including an unction of undertakers, a shrivel of critics and a queue of actors.

From Washington Post

The role not only artfully transmuted Morgan’s persona but also used the unique unction of his performance to comment on the entanglement of race and comedy.

From The New Yorker

For many people, protein has become a kind of secular unction: it instantly anoints any food with an aura of health and goodness.

From The Guardian