ministering angel

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Noun

ministering angel (plural ministering angels)

  1. A woman considered as a virtuous helper or carer.
    • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1:
      I tell thee, churlish priest,
      A ministering angel shall my sister be
      When thou liest howling.
    • 1808, Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto VI, Stanza 30:
      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!

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