Anointing

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    anointment

    "the anointings of Jesus"

  2. 2
    the act of applying oil or an oily liquid wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of anoint form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"My love is like a spring among the hills whose brimming waters may not be confined, but pour one torrent through the ways that wind down to a garden; there the rose distills its nectar; there a tall, white lily fills night with anointing of two lovers, blind, dumb, deaf, of body, spirit, and of mind from breathless blending of far-sundered wills."

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