"anointment" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: anointments [plural]
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  1. The act of anointing with oil or other liquids. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act): χρῖσμα (khrîsma) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), voitelu (Finnish), onction [feminine] (French), Salbung [feminine] (German), Ölung [feminine] (German), unzione [feminine] (Italian), миропомазание (miropomazanie) [neuter] (Macedonian), unção [feminine] (Portuguese), миропомазание (miropomazanije) (Russian), smörjelse (Swedish), himo (Tagalog), paghihimo (Tagalog)
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  2. (figurative) An official nomination. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable
    Sense id: en-anointment-en-noun-uSf4Aoaw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: reanointment

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.