extreme unction

noun

: a sacrament in which a priest anoints and prays for the recovery and salvation of a critically ill or injured person

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for extreme unction

• heterojunction
• adjunction
• compunction
• conjunction
• disjunction
• dysfunction
• injunction
• inunction
• malfunction
• eigenfunction
• multifunction
• function