anointment
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- noun
- /əˈnɔɪntmənt/
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- In his first response, Obama repeated the mantra that this economy still suffers because of events that preceded his first term anointment.
Examples
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I have a lot of Anointment work to do and was trying to get some work done when I heard water spraying from somewhere it shouldn't have been and someone yelling "SHUT THE WATER OFF" from the kitchen.
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I long suspected that JPM ran up its supreme derivative mountain only because it knew it had the Fed's anointment to never have it called in for payment.
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He needed to pray for anointment.
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Anyone in the reality of the current system is required to gain anointment by the ruling class to make the Faustian deal in order to be allowed to be nominated.
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Others may have derivatized themselves so extremely in hopes of similar anointment, but I suspect the Fed will neither need nor be able to integrally save more than one of these super-entities on its way to rolling out a new monetary order for us to live under.
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During the ritual, the priest performed an anointment of the congregation with sacred oil.
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The elaborate ceremony featured an anointment of the newly appointed bishop, symbolizing his spiritual authority.
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Witnesses described the anointment as a profound moment, filled with prayer and reverence for the holy tradition.
Synonyms
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To put oil on a person or thing in a religious ceremony
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An act of putting oil on someone during a religious ceremony
An act of putting oil on a person during a religious or healing ceremony
How Ceremonial
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Anointment comes from the verb anoint, which once meant 'to smear' oil or a greasy substance on someone and is the same root as ointment, a kind of oily medicine. So, anointment is the act of putting oil or a special ointment on someone, often as a religious blessing.