Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; consecration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
anointing withoil or other liquids.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of applying oil or an oily liquid
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our president was not a bad choice, but maybe, just maybe, his anointment was a tad premature.
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Our president was not a bad choice, but maybe, just maybe, his anointment was a tad premature.
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Our president was not a bad choice, but maybe, just maybe, his anointment was a tad premature.
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The anointment of n|om takes place inside the Creator.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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"Today, praise God, America is not facing an individual or group or a faction," he said upon his anointment as al Qaeda's leader.
Sizing Up bin Laden's Successor Fouad Ajami 2011
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Contrast that to McIlroy's situation: the 21-year-old prodigy, awaiting his anointment as golf's great hope, was forced to sleep on the pressure of a big overnight lead.
So Good, Even the Golfers Want a Replay John Paul Newport 2011
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A year ago I was asked my opinion on the anointment of Xi Jinping as vice president and leader of the "party of princelings," as the new generation of Chinese Communist Party leaders is derisively called by some in China.
China's Party of Princelings Wang Dan 2011
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Which doesn't mean that there won't be grilling and goadings as Lord Patten proceeds to anointment.
Lord Patten's role could be to take the BBC into Europe 2011
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Even if one has no particular fondness for JET, he may have fondness for other institutions whose anointment derives from the same structure as JET's.
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For a player of his gifts, the shock of the anointment is more easily absorbed than it would be for, say, Ben Curtis, the unknown rookie who raised the Claret Jug here in 2003.
Rory McIlroy prepares for Open pressure cooker with stroll in the sun 2011
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