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extreme unction

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extreme unction
n. Roman Catholic Church
The Anointing of the Sick.
extreme unction
n
(Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) RC Church a former name for anointing of the sick
Extreme Unction of undertakers—Lipton, 1970.
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Noun1.extreme unctionextreme unction - a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation
anointing of the sick, last rites
sacrament - a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction


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Three neighbours surrounded her when the dominie administered the Extreme Unction.
A Simple Soul by Flaubert, Gustave View in context
Extreme unction had been administered to the cardinal, who, faithful to his habits of dissimulation, struggled against appearances, and even against reality, receiving company in his bed, as if he only suffered from a temporary complaint.
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