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n. - Assistance in time of difficulty.

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Usage examples (31)
  • We would like to thank you for your prayers and comforting ministrations during our father's illness and on his final journey.
  • She let others send for him when in her calls his ministration was required, and she was careful not to linger where he was likely to come.
  • Yup, the more the bloom comes of the rose that people think the O-ministration is the more they catch a whiff of the fertilizer underneath.
  • Fourthly, The gospel is called the ministration of the Spirit, and the ministers of it the ministers of the Spirit: 2 Cor. iii.
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