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UK
/ʌnktɪˈɒn/
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NOUN
- excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm
- smug self-serving earnestness
- semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
- anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual
How To Use unction In A Sentence
- Objective:To observe the effects of transurethral vaporization for prostate (TVP) and suprapubic prostatectomy (SPP) on sexual function of the patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
- He can dissolve the parliament, and nominate people to all the key state functions.
- Construction here would include offices, retail and hotels with the objective of integrating the docklands with the city centre and extending its functions to the east.
- Fitness functions include a simple linear problem for binary strings and classification of data sets which are dynamically loaded from a specified data file.
- Dysfunctional families seem to be occupying the minds of Scotland's visiting choreographers.
- The digital flux that frames our experience of physical and socio-political realities functions through continuous additions, subtractions, and disappearances.
- Administration. Quality assurance must be integrated into local health care management functions. 3.
- For perciform fishes, the pectoral fin and tail are known to play important roles in propulsion and there is now a substantial literature on the function of these fins.
- With the collapse of the Soviet economy, prisons could no longer function as an industrial monolith.
- Since the anito is the cause of all bodily afflictions the chief function of the person who battles for the health of the afflicted is that of the exorcist, rather than that of the therapeutist. The Bontoc Igorot