Definition of "ministration" []

• The act or process of serving or aiding. (noun)
• The act of performing the duties of a cleric. (noun)

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• "Yup, the more the bloom comes of the rose that people think the O-ministration is the more they catch a whiff of the fertilizer underneath."
• "She let others send for him when in her calls his ministration was required, and she was careful not to linger where he was likely to come."
• "The other ministration, he calls the ministration of the spirit, even that which Christ offered to the world, upon believing."