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Interventizio Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
Last rites/extreme unction
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What do you call the priest's last blessing before one dies? I've found: LAST RITES/EXTREME UNCTION. I'm particularly interested in the most common way of saying it for AE speakers.
Thank you!
What do you call the priest's last blessing before one dies? I've found: LAST RITES/EXTREME UNCTION. I'm particularly interested in the most common way of saying it for AE speakers.
Thank you!
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Extreme unction is probably a direct translation of a Latin phrase used in the Catholic Church. S. They mean the same thing.
- Extreme unction is probably a direct translation of a Latin phrase used in the Catholic Church.
- S.
- They mean the same thing.
- [ Edit: the Latin term is extremam unctionem ]
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Extreme unction is probably a direct translation of a Latin phrase used in the Catholic Church. Last rights is much more common, at least in the U.S. They mean the same thing.
[ Edit: the Latin term is extremam unctionem ]
[ Edit: the Latin term is extremam unctionem ]
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