Deaconesses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEACONESSES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• DEACONESS, a female deacon
• (in the early Church and some modern Churches) a woman with duties similar to those of a deacon.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a woman chosen to assist in the church ministry; one in a Protestant order

Words related to DEACONESSES

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How to use DEACONESSES in a sentence

• He told about the deaconesses who managed the hospital at Manchester, and the training school which Marcia Dayne Carbrook had attended when she was getting ready to go to China.
• That school had sent out hundreds of deaconesses and other workers.
• These Sisters appear to have worked very much like the modern deaconesses of the Church of England.
• I visited also a Protestant institution, called that of the Deaconesses, which pleased me in some respects.
• The Sisters Evelyn and Miriam, who organized much of this work, were Wesley deaconesses employed in South Africa.
• The order of deaconesses appears to have been mainly composed of pious widows, and only those were eligible who had had but one husband.
• The answer has already, in some degree, been given in what was said regarding the extinct order of deaconesses.
• I am counting also on Phebe herself, as my pearl of deaconesses, with no vow to bind her, if the happiness and fuller life of marriage opened before her.
• It was to advance its interests that he came to America, and afterwards went to Jerusalem, to superintend the establishment of branch Institutes of Deaconesses.
• But it is in Kaiserswerth that the Deaconesses are trained for their humanitarian life-work.
• The ancient order of deaconesses imposed no vow, yet it was co-existent with the early church, and accepted by many of the fathers as part of the apostolic order.

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