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Definition
to help, aid, or treat — often in a minor hands-on wayor:
the work of a religious minister
- She waited to answer until the medical attendant had finished his ministrations.
- The missionaries extended the church's ministrations deep into the jungle.
- She's focused on my arm and Miss Koto's ministrations.Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
- I know that from the beds of those who were past recovery, thanks have often, often gone up, in the last hour, for his patient ministration.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
- I had been lulled into something close to peace by old Jopin's ministrations.Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
- Now the coldness that, under Aunt Beast's ministrations, had left her body had also left her mind.Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
- Eddis had had just this support in mind when she summoned them, and she submitted to their ministrations with equanimity.Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
- Obasan is moving about deaf and impassive, unavailable for questioning or their ministrations.Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
- It might be spiritual and imparted to him by angelical ministrations.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- Valentine now requires only the ministrations of the priest.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Having established premeditation of great degree, Green left the witness to the ministrations of the defense.Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- IV The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One Eustacia's journey was at first as vague in direction as that of thistledown on the wind.Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
- Under their gentle ministrations he found peace and learned a degree of patience.Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
- If Laia survived, it's no doubt due to the older woman's ministrations.Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
- Germany and Japan far worse under our tender ministrations.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
- Her condition was unchanged; she still did not react to his ministrations.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- One continually sees the ministration of the temporary outlasting the ministration of the eternal.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- He breathed heavily, permitting the ministrations to his body rather than helping them.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- His life was painful, disrupted by infection, and dependent on the constant ministrations of others.Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
- The commander himself was someone whom these days people might call a "health nut," as some of his ministrations were quite peculiar.Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
ministrations = efforts to help, aid, or treat
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
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