unction

“That you may, my good little girl: there is not another being in the world has the same pure love for me as yourself—for I lay that pleasant unction to my soul, Jane, a belief in your affection.”

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

“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?”

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

Ben bathed in the unction of his shouted name.