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Deaconess   /dˈikənəs/   Listen
noun
Deaconess  n.  (Eccl.) A female deacon; as:
(a)
(Primitive Ch.) One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons.
(b)
(Ch. of Eng. and Prot. Epis. Ch.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.
(c)
A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.






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"Deaconess" Quotes from Famous Books



... slept the hours crept away and it was morning and an early postman came and opened the box with a rattling key and took out three letters which the deaconess had sent to her scattered family, and one, oddly written, which the janitor had executed for his mother in Italy, and the letter to the girl. From hand to hand it sped, and away, and was hidden in a sack in a long mail-train, and at last, Robert Halarkenden, on the 25th of September, came ...
— August First • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray

... William and Arthur had made a great fire when we came up, and we heated some beans and made some tea and ate lunch. A mile farther on was the cabin of a white man, and we paid him a brief visit and got a little tea from him, for ours was nearly gone. It did me good to hear him sing the praises of Deaconess Carter, the trained nurse at the mission. She had taken him in, crippled with rheumatism, and had cured him. Already the new mission was proving a boon to whites as well as natives. We made no more than four or five miles farther when, coming to spruce with ...
— Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled - A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska • Hudson Stuck

... $2,782,773; total value of property, $736,152. This property consists of twenty industrial homes and schools, six mission homes, two immigrant homes, three children's homes, six centers of city mission work, five deaconess and missionary training schools, twenty-eight deaconess homes, four rest ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... shrewdly, "but with that hair you won't be one of the comfortable married kind—it will be either a grande passion or a career for you. If you don't find your Romeo, you'll be Mother Superior in a convent, the head of a deaconess home, or a ...
— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey

... I tell you, I rather guess She was a wonder, and nothing less! Colts grew horses, beards turned gray, Deacon and deaconess dropped away, Children and grandchildren—where were they? But there stood the stout old one-hoss shay ...
— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck


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