extreme unction

[ ek-streem, ik-streem ]

/ ˈɛk strim, ɪkˈstrim /

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noun Roman Catholic Church.

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Origin of extreme unction

First recorded in 1570–80

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How to use extreme unction in a sentence

Investigators will focus on whether the sudden emergency was so extreme that no degree of pilot skill would have helped.
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He was part of an extreme, racialized white faction in the Louisiana state house that was clearly dead-set against honoring King.
Steve Scalise and the Right’s Ridiculous Racial Blame Game|Michael Tomasky|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In the most extreme cases, it allows for the extrajudicial killing of black people without consequence.
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Nor should we ever assume that weather alone, however extreme, should be fatal to a commercial flight.
Did Bad Weather Bring Down AirAsia 8501?|Clive Irving|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

No one likes it when their sandcastle is knocked over, but his reaction is a bit, err, extreme.
Was Baby Jesus A Holy Terror?|Candida Moss|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
The controlling center of consciousness is the extreme limit of the nares anteri.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
As a rule, however, even in the case of extreme varieties, a careful examination of the specimen will enable it to be identified.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
It stands at one extreme of our currency, with a dollar of gold set aside behind each dollar of paper.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips

British Dictionary definitions for extreme unction

extreme unction

noun

RC Church a former name for anointing of the sick

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