unction in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

unction in the PONS Dictionary

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She predicted the date of her own death and died after receiving extreme unction.
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We forbid abbots and monks to impose public penances, to visit the sick, to administer extreme unction, and to sing public masses.
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Anointing with oil, with prayer of anointing that is the same prayer used in the service of healing unction.
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It has the sort of unction of jackfruit: that creamy/buttery/pineapple territory, but never gets too big on your face.
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The delay between his appointment as co-regent and his unction, to which much importance was ascribed, is most probably explained by his coming of age, likely fourteen, in that year.
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Until that point, prayer and medical treatments (potions, baths, unctions, and thirty bleedings) had proven futile.
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He then threw the articles of extreme unction to the other priest seated at the table, and called the police and confessed.
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Now about 10 monks live in the skit famous for its everyday unction sacrament with anointing.
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The north ambulatory also holds the holy oils (chrism) used during the sacraments of baptism and extreme unction, confirmation, and at the ordination of priests.
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His friends, too, thought that the former unction of his ministry was wanting.
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