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ministration
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Definition:the act of ministering; taking care of
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But I could hardly force him to submit to my ministrations if he didn’t want to.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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never before heard of that no woman, however dainty, fair or well-born she might be, shrank, when stricken with the disease, from the ministrations of a man, no matter whether he were young or no, or scrupled to expose to him every part of her body,
Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron, Volume I
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equally disturbing and indefinite throughout — in the arrangement of the furniture, the thickness of the carpets, the position of the windows, the ministrations of the servants.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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‘Well, yes—oh, you would intimate that her spirit has taken the post of ministering angel, and guards the fortunes of Wuthering Heights, even when her body is gone. Is that it?’
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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as a mother cat washes her kittens, so she washed and cleansed Buck's wounds. Regularly, each morning after he had finished his breakfast, she performed her self-appointed task, till he came to look for her ministrations as much as he did for Thornton's.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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