Meaning & use
ministering
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Attending to the needs of someone, especially by providing care, comfort, or religious service.
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The nurse spent the night ministering to patients in the emergency ward.
The priest was ministering to the sick in the hospital chapel.
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Though closely tied to religious contexts, "ministering" is also used more broadly for any compassionate act of caregiving.
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