Sample sentences for MINISTRATIONS

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Definition

to help, aid, or treat — often in a minor hands-on way

or:

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

ministrations = efforts to help, aid, or treat

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

(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.)

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

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