Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of anointing with oil or other liquids.

    Salbung, Ölung

    миропомазаниеmiropomazanije

    the act of applying oil or an oily liquid

  2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)An official nomination.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
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Deutsch
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Forms

plural: anointments
Singularanointment
Pluralanointments

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the act of applying oil or an oily liquid:anointing

Word family

2 related words
Relatedanoint

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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