noun
Meaning 1
An ointment or salve.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A religious or ceremonial anointing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A balm or something that soothes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A quality in language, address or delivery which expresses sober and fervent emotion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
Unctuousness: A smug, exaggerated use of language; smarminess.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
Divine or sanctifying grace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: inunction
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: anointing, anointment, religious ceremony, religious ritual
noun
Meaning 8
semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ointment, unguent, balm, salve
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
Narrower terms: arnica, baby oil, balsam, carron oil, cerate, chrism, chrisom, sacramental oil, holy oil, lip balm, mentholated salve, mercurial ointment, zinc ointment
noun
Meaning 9
smug self-serving earnestness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unctuousness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hypocrisy
noun
Meaning 10
excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: smarm, fulsomeness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: compliment
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin ungō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin unctiōbor. English unction Borrowed from Latin unctiō.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: крем (krem) — ointment or salve
- Bulgarian: мехлем (mehlem) — ointment or salve
- Czech: mazání — ointment or salve
- Finnish: voide — ointment or salve
- French: onction — ointment or salve
- Greek: αλοιφή (aloifí) — ointment or salve
- Hungarian: kenőcs — ointment or salve
- Irish: ungadh — ointment or salve
- Polish: namaszczenie — ointment or salve
- Russian: мазь (mazʹ) — ointment or salve
- Bulgarian: миропомазване (miropomazvane) — religious or ceremonial anointing
- Czech: pomazání — religious or ceremonial anointing
- Finnish: voitelu — religious or ceremonial anointing
- French: onction — religious or ceremonial anointing
- Greek: χρίσμα (chrísma) — religious or ceremonial anointing
- Ancient Greek: χρῖσμα (khrîsma) — religious or ceremonial anointing
- Hungarian: kenet — religious or ceremonial anointing
- Hungarian: felkenés — religious or ceremonial anointing
- Irish: ungadh — religious or ceremonial anointing
- Latin: unctio — religious or ceremonial anointing
- Polish: namaszczenie — religious or ceremonial anointing
- Russian: пома́зание (pomázanije) — religious or ceremonial anointing
- Spanish: unción — religious or ceremonial anointing
- Finnish: palsami — balm or something that soothes
- Hungarian: balzsam — balm or something that soothes
- Hungarian: ír — balm or something that soothes
- Italian: balsamo — balm or something that soothes
- Italian: unguento — balm or something that soothes
- Italian: crema — balm or something that soothes
- Russian: еле́й (jeléj) — balm or something that soothes
- Finnish: liukaskielisyys — smug use of language
- Finnish: liukkaus — smug use of language
- Hungarian: kenetteljesség — smug use of language
- Hungarian: önelégültség — smug use of language