Usually means: Applying oil as religious ritual.
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  1. anointing: Merriam-Webster
  2. anointing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. anointing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Anointing, anointing: Wordnik
  5. anointing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. anointing: Wiktionary
  7. Anointing, anointing: Dictionary.com
  8. anointing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Anointing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Anointing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. anointing: Rhymezone
  12. Anointing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. anointing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. anointing: FreeDictionary.org
  15. anointing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. anointing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. anointing: Legal dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anointing: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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▸ noun:  anointment

Similar:
annointment, unction, inunction, ointment, enoiling, reanointment, Anointing of the Sick, extreme unction, illinition, enthroning, more...

Types:
anointing of sick, more...

Phrases:
Anointing of the Sick, Washing and anointing, Holy anointing oil, Anointing of Jesus, Anointing of the Sick in the Catholic Church, more...

Adjectives:
same, holy, special, last, prophetic, fresh, divine, second, baptismal, royal, spiritual

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Similar:
annointment, unction, inunction, ointment, enoiling, reanointment, Anointing of the Sick, extreme unction, illinition, enthroning, more...

Types:
anointing of sick, more...

Phrases:
Anointing of the Sick, Washing and anointing, Holy anointing oil, Anointing of Jesus, Anointing of the Sick in the Catholic Church, Second anointing, one of the ancient anointing oils, more...

Adjectives:
same, holy, special, last, prophetic, fresh, divine, second, baptismal, royal, spiritual

Colors:
    gold,     white,     purple,     blue,     silver, more...



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