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anointing

noun as in baptism

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Can’t we just enjoy all their greatness as part of Dodgers history without anointing one greater than another?

Malcolm X is at the heart of it all, his image anointing the walls and a photograph of his former home, boarded up with a sign advertising its rehabilitation, presented without comment.

But she proved the doubters wrong, anointing herself in the process as a global fashion icon.

From BBC

Nearly 10 years ago, Cancro performed the anointing of the sick — laying hands on a person who is ill, spreading oil on their forehead and praying — on Eguino.

Still the party would be better off if it held a wide-open convention that allowed all presidential aspirants to compete and make their cases, rather than just anointing the vice president.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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