noun. The act of anointing as part of a religious, ceremonial, or healing ritual.

noun. An ointment or oil; a salve.

noun. Something that serves to soothe; a balm.

noun. Affected or exaggerated earnestness, especially in choice and use of language.

noun. The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, ointment, or oil.

noun. Especially— Anointing as a symbol of consecration, dedication, or appointment to an important office. The practice of unction in religious ceremouials existed in the Christian church at a very early day, as well as in the Jewish church, and has been continued to the present time in the Roman Catholic, Greek, and some other churches. In Christian usage it includes the unction of catechumens both before and after baptism, of candidates at confirmation, of the clergy at ordination, of the sick, of kings at their coronation, and of various articles dedicated to a sacred use. The practice is not continued in Protestant churches. See chrism, and holy oil (under oil).

noun. Anointing for medical purposes.

noun. That which is used for anointing; an unguent; an ointment; a salve.

noun. Hence Anything that is soothing or lenitive.

noun. In speech, that quality in the words used, tone of expression, or mode of address which excites devotion, fervor, tenderness, sympathy, and the like in the hearer; especially, those qualities which induce religious fervor and tenderness.

noun. Emotional warmth; gush; specifically, simulated fervor, devotion, or sympathy; counterfeited sentiment; nauseous sentimentality.

noun. The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration.

noun. That which is used for anointing; an unguent; an ointment; hence, anything soothing or lenitive.

noun. Divine or sanctifying grace.

noun. That quality in language, address, or the like, which excites emotion; especially, strong devotion; religious fervor and tenderness; sometimes, a simulated, factitious, or unnatural fervor.

noun. the sacrament of anointing in the last hours; the application of consecrated oil by a priest to all the senses, that is, to eyes, ears, nostrils, etc., of a person when in danger of death from illness, -- done for remission of sins.

noun. a salve or ointment

noun. a religious or ceremonial anointing

noun. a balm or something that soothes

noun. a smug, exaggerated use of language; smarminess

noun. smug self-serving earnestness

noun. semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation

noun. anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual

noun. excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm

"Christians, and so be in Him as Christ, anointed with that unction from the Holy One."

emotionalism  unction of the sick  

Anointing of the Sick  extreme unction  

anointing  anointment  compliment  hypocrisy  religious ceremony  

Eucharist  absolution  assiduity  austerity  baptism  

Tartuffery  Tartuffism  affectation  anointment  balm