ministration Definition
min·is·tra·tion (min′is trā′s̸hən)
ministration Related Forms
min′·is·tra′·tive adjective
ministration Synonyms
ministration Usage Examples
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.
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