- present participle of anoint.
anointing
Example Sentences
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In that sense, it appeared more like an anointing than a procedural formality: the veteran of the American left passing the baton to a younger standard-bearer.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2026
Can’t we just enjoy all their greatness as part of Dodgers history without anointing one greater than another?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2025
He was anointing them, he said, to become poll workers.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2024
One man waved his flame back and forth as if anointing his beard, smiling.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024
But in his own field of endeavor, which he was now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing of an area, he has no peer.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
