How To Use anointment In A Sentence
- In western as in eastern Christendom coronation was a religious rite which began with the anointment of the ruler with holy oil.
- Jong-un's status as heir was never officially confirmed, however, and it could be years before the regime comments on the most recent reports of his anointment.
- Contrast that to McIlroy's situation: the 21-year-old prodigy, awaiting his anointment as golf's great hope, was forced to sleep on the pressure of a big overnight lead. So Good, Even the Golfers Want a Replay
- That it is a divine right communicated by priestly anointment, attended by public ceremonies, imposing in appearance, and "_ad captandum, _" for the public eye. Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy
- These vases contained a variety of balsamic and oleaceous compositions for the anointment, which, when ultimately performed, prepared the bathers for the _sphæristerium_, in which various amusements and exercises were enjoyed. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832
- Hundreds and thousands of people line up for him to do anointment.
- A year ago I was asked my opinion on the anointment of Xi Jinping as vice president and leader of the "party of princelings," as the new generation of Chinese Communist Party leaders is derisively called by some in China. China's Party of Princelings
- After rumours of the younger Kim's anointment began circulating last year, Ueli Studer, the town's director of education, would only confirm that a "North Korean youth" had been on the school's rolls.
- For a player of his gifts, the shock of the anointment is more easily absorbed than it would be for, say, Ben Curtis, the unknown rookie who raised the Claret Jug here in 2003. Rory McIlroy prepares for Open pressure cooker with stroll in the sun
- Scripted, sanitized and stripped of the unexpected by early anointment of presidential and vice-presidential nominees, they offer as few clashes of policies and personalities as possible.
