Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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last rites | Yes | No | No | No |
sacrament | Yes | No | No | No |
last rites (noun) | sacrament (noun) |
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rites performed in connection with a death or burial | a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction |
a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation |