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extreme unction
[ ek-streem, ik-streem ]
extreme unction
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Origin of extreme unction1
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Example Sentences
Rather late that evening we administered extreme unction to him, for otherwise he was sufficiently prepared for it.
The priest may be obliged to administer baptism, to hear confession, to give the Viaticum and Extreme Unction.
It was used as well for a confessional, and to carry the priest to and from visits of extreme unction.
Madame de Saint-Simon told me afterward that he had received extreme unction; in fine that he had died at half-past eight.
From the preface to the Persiles he appears to have received extreme unction before the last word of it was written.
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