Briefly, these elements are sublimity of thought, beauty of sentiment, aptness of expression, unction of form.

For example, let us not "lay the flattering unction to our souls" that this spirit is solely the reaction of the great war.

they treated these compositions with extreme reserve, and while they made some expressions clearer they maintained the primitive unction in a large number of passages" (Baudot, The Roman Breviary, part iii., chap.

M. Flaubert has taken the scene of the extreme unction from a book which a venerable ecclesiastic, one of his friends, lent to him; this same friend has read the scene and been moved to tears, not imagining that the majesty of religion was in any way offended.

The fervour with which he prayed, the unction with which he preached, excited their admiration and tears.

You can put more savor and unction into it than I can.

"I see," said a Spaniard, "that we can scarcely get anything from Christ's ministers but for money; at baptism money, at bishoping money, at marriage money, for confession money,no, not extreme unction without money!

The priest receives the unction on his hands from without because he has already received it from within at the time of his ordination, and the sick person receives it within.

There was one story, at least, that this actor used to relate with much unction after a visit which he once paid to Dublin.