anointed
adjective
consecrated or made sacred; dedicated to God, often in a ceremony that includes dabbing or sprinkling with holy oil.
unanointed
-
a word derived from
anointed.
Example Sentences
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The insects nipped at the faces of unanointed cats, but largely snubbed the felines that had gone gaga for the vines.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2021
They may join the ragtag list of victims, victimizers, unanointed antiheroes and assorted foul balls about whom Newman has sung with stinging wit and unexpected compassion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Further fights erupted as units returned from Peking and started telling their unanointed comrades in the local Red Guard schools how things should be run.
From Time Magazine Archive
He knew his fellow creatures better than most men, knew that inner life which so seldom unfolds itself to unanointed eyes.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
She remembered one who died there suddenly, and without remedy,—her father, unabsolved and unanointed, dying in fear and torment, in a moment when none anticipated death.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
