• IPA: /ʌŋkʃən/

unction

1. A salve or ointment.
   • 1682, John Dryden, "Mac Flecknoe":

     The king himself the sacred unction made, / As king by office, and as priest by trade.

2. A religious or ceremonial anointing.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     To be heir, and to be king / By sacred unction, thy deserved right.

3. A balm or something that soothes.
4. A quality in language, address or delivery which expresses sober and fervent emotion.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 11:

     Krook almost smacks his lips with the unction of a horrible interest.

5. A smug, exaggerated use of language; smarminess.
6. Divine or sanctifying grace.

• French: onction
• Russian: мазь

• French: onction
• Russian: пома́зание
• Spanish: unción

• Italian: balsamo, unguento, crema
• Russian: еле́й