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- adjective not
anointed
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Examples
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A five-time nominee, Carell has yet to win for his career-making role, and it would be a shame to see him go unanointed for bringing so much humanity and sympathy to a seemingly one-dimensional doofus.
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A five-time nominee, Carell has yet to win for his career-making role, and it would be a shame to see him go unanointed for bringing so much humanity and sympathy to a seemingly one-dimensional doofus.
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Yet now and then some complacent blind idiot says, “You unanointed are coarse clay and useless; you are not as we, the regenerators of the world; go, bury yourselves elsewhere, for we cannot take the responsibility of recommending idlers and sinners to the yearning mercy of Heaven.”
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It never fails to make an impression on the unanointed.
outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2001
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He knew his fellow-creatures better than most men; knew that inner life which so seldom unfolds itself to unanointed* eyes.
The Awakening 2000
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Who follows me from here must resign himself that his bones will go unanointed.
Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1986
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Who follows me from here must resign himself that his bones will go unanointed.
Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1984
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She remembered one who died there suddenly, and without remedy, -- her father, unabsolved and unanointed, dying in fear and torment, in a moment when none anticipated death.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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The Enchanted Isles wear no enchantment to unanointed vision; their skies of Paradise are fog, their angels Harpies, perchance, or harsh-throated Sirens.
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But, as S. Augustine remarks, [249] the words first quoted are due to the blind man as yet unanointed -- viz., not yet perfectly illumined -- and hence they are not valid; though they might be true if understood of a sinner precisely as such, and in this sense, too, his prayer is said to be "an abomination."
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907
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