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ministering angel en · NOUN
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A woman considered as a virtuous helper or carer.
I tell thee, churlish priest,
A ministering angel shall my sister be
When thou liest howling.
c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1:O, Woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!
1808, Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto VI, Stanza 30:
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