Unction

(noun.) anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual.

(noun.) excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm.

录入:帕特里斯

• He spoke to _me_ with unction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• They appeared to afford rather an unusual unction to his soul, and his astonishment seemed to me not quite unmixed with gratitude. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The unction, the suavity of her behaviour offered, for one who knew her, a sure token that suspicion of some kind was busy in her brain. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Before you is a marble slab, which covers the Stone of Unction, whereon the Saviour's body was laid to prepare it for burial. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The voice of that sly little book was a honeyed voice; its accents were all unction and balm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Krook almost smacks his lips with the unction of a horrible interest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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