had anointed
- past perfect of anoint.
Example Sentences
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Robert Brustein even suggested Wilson was guilty of a “failure of gratitude” toward the system that had anointed him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
By 1946, Igor Kurchatov, architect of the Soviet nuclear weapons program, had anointed the institute “Laboratory No. 1” and closed its doors to the outside world.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 6, 2022
On Tibet, Jiang was reluctant to deal with the Dalai Lama, the region's exiled spiritual leader, who had anointed a six-year-old boy as the second most senior monk in Tibetan Buddhism.
From Reuters ● Nov. 30, 2022
Mr. Savitsky had anointed Ms. Babanazarova, 59, to succeed him upon his death.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2015
I knew he had anointed me to preach the gospel, to bind up the brokenhearted, and to proclaim liberty to the captives.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
