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n. (plural of ministration English)
Usage examples of "ministrations".
He had answered: 'Ask our foreign‑returned doctor, ask that nakkoo, that German Aziz,' Was it, then, an attempt to offend the Doctor's hypersensitive nostrils (in which the itch of danger had subsided somewhat under the anaesthetizing ministrations of love)?
Slav endured the ministrations though the brown Catteni antiseptic stung like fire, even a Catteni.
He didn't argue, it was too pleasant to relax under her ministrations, though her gentle hands sometimes reminded him of other occasions and .
No need here, I think, to number the cases where the ministrations of murderers to their victims have aroused the almost tearful admiration of beholders.
It tells how Jean, from being completely apathetic and callous with regard to religion or to the dreadful situation in which she found herself through her crime, under the patient and tender ministrations of her spiritual advisers, arrived at complete resignation to her fate and genuine repentance for her misdeeds.
In spite of the ministrations of himself and his colleague, Rosalie had died.
She rather heartlessly abandoned the invalid—which would appear to have been a good thing for the invalid, for, lacking Helene's ministrations, she got better.
Those ministrations failing to alleviate the sufferings ofthe invalid, Dr Bordot brought a colleague into consultation, but neither the new-comer, Dr Partra, nor himself could be positive in diagnosis.
He pointed out that the ministrations of the accused had effected no betterment, but that the illness had rapidly got worse.
Even Rhys raised his head and looked up at them, rocking back on his heels, his ministrations apparently finished.
Unreal, too, were the moon elf s ministrations when she turned and stooped beside him.
At this very moment, there were two second-form students in the infirmary, wearing plasters and glumly enduring the ministrations of Mystra's clergy.
But I could hardly force him to submit to my ministrations if he didn't want to.
Finishing my ministrations, I wiped the slippery ointment off my hands with a towel.
Sir Marcus had completed his ministrations and was looking over my shoulder with deep interest.