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    unction


    1. A church gets a new building and suddenly they don’t have the same unction and anointing


    2. A) One must be specially called and chosen of or by God; or have an unction


    3. I think there was always an unction in me, an urging for me to hurry up and grow up


    4. My true Church moves by the unction of my Spirit and is led by me, as I follow my Fathers’ Path


    5. Matrimony, and Extreme Unction, are sacraments of the gospel


    6. teaching, His anointing-the "unction from the


    7. Both of them encouraged me to follow the unction of the Holy Spirit and to sow


    8. Ask for an unction (real or pretended earnestness or fervor, especially with regard to spiritual matters and especially when expressed in suitably solemn language) from God and he will deliver upon the promise of the Holy Spirit inside of you


    9. following the unction of the Holy Spirit, has started the FB Group, READ THE BIBLE


    10. I myself had been astonished, she reminded me, at the sudden violent change he had already undergone from unction to very nearly swearing; he might easily under-go another back again, and then what a pity to have disturbed the small amount of peace of mind poor Kitty had

    11. Through the unction of the Holy Spirit this sister would recite Bible verses loudly and clearly, and every one would write down the words in their books


    12. Abba Father, Holy Father, in Jesus’ Name, Your Holy Child Jesus, we ask for the unction to function in the power and demonstration of the Spirit of the Living God


    13. That verse, if I understand that verse at all, what that verse is saying to me is this: That I should be living in the unction of the Holy Spirit, and under that unction, I should open up this Bible with an open face beholding as in a glass, the glory of the Lord in the pages of this Book


    14. Lay not that mattering unction to your soul,


    15. Then he recited the Misereatur and the Indulgentiam, dipped his right thumb in the oil, and began to give extreme unction


    16. He sang this very loud, with great unction and expression; and when he had


    17. " And he would take a pinch of snuff with unction


    18. The next day the sick man received the sacrament and extreme unction


    19. After extreme unction the sick man became suddenly much better


    20. He had been marrying, baptizing, confessing, absolving, and burying the workers of the San Tome mine with dignity and unction for five years or more; and he believed in the

    21. After a mute confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle and thrill of suspense usual at such moments


    22. administer the sacrament of unction


    23. ‘The divine mercy is inexhaustible! Unction is about to be administered


    24. After receiving communion and unction he quietly died; and next day a throng of acquaintances who came to pay their last respects to the deceased filled the house rented by the Rostovs


    25. He sang this very loud, with great unction and expression; and when he had done, he sang it all over again


    26. After taking the communion, the service of extreme unction followed


    27. An hour before the end came she made her final confession, received the Sacrament with quiet joy, and was accorded extreme unction


    28. They will certainly not say that a horse is "covered" with wool; if so, why are they compelled to repeat these questions just as the teacher has put them? But if they do not know them (which is not to be admitted except as regards the suslik), the question arises: by what will the teacher be guided in what is with so much unction called the programme of questions,—by the science of zoology, or by logic? or by the science of eloquence? But if by none of the sciences, and merely by the desire to talk about what is visible in the objects, there are so many visible things in objects, and they are so diversified, that a guiding thread is needed to show what to talk upon, whereas in objective instruction there is no such thread, and there can be none


    29. The Church baptizes him, anoints him, gives him the eucharist, confesses him, even after he has lost consciousness, administers extreme unction to him, and prays for him,—and he is saved


    30. To all priests in common belongs, besides the preaching of the word, the administration of the SIX SACRAMENTS,—BAPTISM, CONFIRMATION, PENANCE, EUCHARIST, MATRIMONY, UNCTION OF THE SICK

    31. Well, and is he to have extreme unction?


    32. In order that the authority held by certain men might fulfil its object, which is to restrain those who are trying to further their own interests to the detriment of society in general, it would be necessary to have it in the hands of infallible men, as is supposed to be the case in China, or as it was believed to be in the Middle Ages, and is even at the present time by those who have faith in consecration by unction


    33. “I wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?” asked the lady, adding the priest’s clerical title, as if she had no opinion of her own on the subject


    34. They wished to administer the sacrament of unction


    35. “The divine mercy is inexhaustible! Unction is about to be administered


    36. After receiving communion and unction he quietly died; and next day a throng of acquaintances who came to pay their last respects to the deceased filled the house rented by the Rostóvs


    37. Will not the same causes produce the same effects now as then? Sir, you may raise this army, you may build up this vast structure of patronage, this mighty apparatus of favoritism; but—"lay not the flattering unction to your souls"—you will never live to enjoy the succession


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    Synonyms for "unction"

    inunction unction balm ointment salve unguent fulsomeness oiliness oleaginousness smarminess unctuousness smarm

    "unction" definitions

    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