EXTREME UNCTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extreme unction mean? 

• EXTREME UNCTION (noun)
  The noun EXTREME UNCTION has 1 sense:

1. a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation

  Familiarity information: EXTREME UNCTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTREME UNCTION (noun)

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Meaning:

A Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

anointing of the sick; extreme unction; last rites

Hypernyms ("extreme unction" is a kind of...):

sacrament (a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction)