Crossword-Solution: UNCTION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Unction | n. | The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, mercurial unction. |
| Unction | n. | That which is used for anointing; an unguent; an ointment; hence, anything soothing or lenitive. |
| Unction | n. | Divine or sanctifying grace. |
| Unction | n. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| UNCTION | anagram | CONTINU, COUNTIN, CUTINON |
We have 37 clues for the answer “UNCTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Smug, self-serving earnestness | 1 answer |
| Act of annointing | 1 answer |
| Act of anointing someone as part of a rite | 1 answer |
| Anointing as part of a religious ceremony | 1 answer |
| Anointing ritual | 1 answer |
| Balm; oily charm | 1 answer |
| Benign influence. | 1 answer |
| Ceremonial anointing | 1 answer |
| Oleaginous suavity. | 1 answer |
| Religious fervor | 1 answer |
| Smarminess | 1 answer |
| Local group | 2 answers |
| greasiness | 2 answers |
| ANOINTING AS PART OF A RELIGIOUS CEREMONY OR HEALING RITUAL | 11 answers |
| anointment | 23 answers |
| ritualism | 23 answers |
| demulcent | 24 answers |
| lubricity | 25 answers |
| religiosity | 25 answers |
| cerate | 25 answers |
| lubrication | 26 answers |
| ANOINTING | 26 answers |
| Liniment. | 27 answers |
| Emollient | 27 answers |
| Unguent | 28 answers |
| Lotion. | 30 answers |
| Salve | 33 answers |
| ointment | 34 answers |
| pietism | 40 answers |
| lubricant | 42 answers |
| Holiness | 51 answers |
| spirituality | 52 answers |
| ___ cream | 52 answers |
| Balm | 66 answers |
| Oil | 67 answers |
| APPLICATION ___ | 68 answers |
| Enthusiasm | 92 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with UNCTION (5)
Into thee such Vertue and Grace Immense I have transfus’d, that all may know In Heav’n and Hell thy Power above compare, And this perverse Commotion governd thus, To manifest thee worthiest to be Heir Of all things, to be Heir and to be King By Sacred Unction, thy deserved right.
They spoke with far more interest and unction of their morning’s breakfast, or yesterday’s, today’s, or tomorrow’s dinner, than of the shipwreck of forty or fifty years ago, and all the world’s wonders which they had witnessed with their youthful eyes.
Some parting injunction, bestowed with great unction, I tried to recall, but forgot like a dunce, When Reginald Murray, full tilt on White Surrey, Came down in a hurry to start us at once.
Since early morning the priest had covered nearly fifteen miles on foot, in order to administer Extreme Unction to a moribund good-for-nothing, a greaser, half Indian, half Portuguese, who lived in a remote corner of Osterman's stock range, at the head of a canon there.
Sasha and the castle-steward had taken the wise precaution to summon a physician and a priest, provided with the utensils for extreme unction.
Quotes with UNCTION (3)
The Unction is given to Function, not to Misfunction
You cannot function in an unction you don't take action on.
Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1945–2024).