extreme unction

1. 1.

   a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation

   Synonymsanointing of the sicklast rites

   Broadersacrament

Questions about extreme unction

What does extreme unction mean?

extreme unction means "a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation".

What is another word for extreme unction?

Close synonyms include anointing of the sick, last rites. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is extreme unction a common word?

extreme unction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.