ministration

Preposition: of

• priest: Having constantly refused the ministrations of a local priest, Paganini died on 27 May 1840.
• death: How can you then find rest and life in that which is the ministration of death?
• spirit: It is the ministration of the Spirit: he works powerfully by it.
• condemnation: A ministration of grace you understand, but you don't perhaps understand a ministration of condemnation.

Converse of object

• suffer: Those who suffer the ministrations of aliens apparently feel helpless at the aliens ' approach.
• miss: Who among us does not miss the gentle ministrations, the softening influences, the humble piety of Lucretia Borgia?

Adjective modifier

• comforting: We would like to thank Canon Philip Dearden for his prayers and comforting ministrations during our father's illness and on his final journey.
• spiritual: Those who remained loyal to the papacy had to depend for spiritual ministrations upon priests who were educated abroad.
• priestly: Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration.
• gentle: But even the gentle ministrations of the deep can become wearing after a time, and all I hear now is a death rattle.

Noun used with modifier

• tender: Could it be that this item was already consigned to the tender ministrations of David Maclean in Mr Farrall's mind?
• Sabbath: I wish I were out! His Sabbath ministrations, thus begun, very soon told upon the people.
• household: But the lesson is prodigiously enhanced when we pass from the pulpit to his household ministrations.