Both Uses of
ordination
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He would know the sins, the sinful longings and sinful thoughts and sinful acts, of others, hearing them murmured into his ears in the confessional under the shame of a darkened chapel by the lips of women and of girls; but rendered immune mysteriously at his ordination by the imposition of hands, his soul would pass again uncontaminated to the white peace of the altar.†
Chpt 4
- Now time lay between: the oils of ordination would never anoint his body.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
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(ordination) ceremony in which someone is officially declared a religious leader -- such as a minister, priest, or rabbi