unction
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They are the unction by which mere deeds become noble.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
Over the years, he proposed his own nouns of multitude, including an unction of undertakers, a shrivel of critics and a queue of actors.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2020
The role not only artfully transmuted Morgan’s persona but also used the unique unction of his performance to comment on the entanglement of race and comedy.
From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019
On Wednesday, she came to the church to be anointed with oil in the sacrament of holy unction and to pick up a cotton ball for her ailing father and her daughter.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2016
“Of course, brave boy. The advice of poets is the cordiality of kings! How may I smear unction on your, no, not unction, how may I give balm to your pain?”
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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