Definitions for chrism

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Spelling: [kriz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈkrɪz əm/

Chrism is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in chrism (chimrs).

Definitions for chrism

noun

  1. a consecrated oil, usually mixed with balsam or balsam and spices, used by certainchurches in various rites, as in baptism, confirmation, and the like.

Origin of chrism

before 900; learned respelling of Middle English crisme, Old English crisma Latin chrīsma Greek chrîsma unguent, unction

Examples for chrism

Anoint me with the chrism of spontaneity that I may be ever worthy of thee.

The chrism of motherhood consecrates a woman as a priestess.

The chrism's glow on his forehead shone, The great St. George of duty high!

Lastly, he anointeth with chrism the twelve crosses depicted on the wall.

The chrism of Thackeray's inaugural ode will not have been dishonored.

Jerry lived under the daily chrism of that soft well-wishing.

And while the chrism is used they chant, 'See the smell of my son is as the smell of a field.'

I had no right, as I told her, to suffer the innocence of her chrism to be soiled with the evil passions which were sin in me.

The chrism is on thine head,—on mine, the dew,— And Death must dig the level where these agree.

For Philip, when he baptised the eunuch, had neither oil nor chrism.

Word Value for chrism
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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