MINISTRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ministration mean? 

• MINISTRATION (noun)
  The noun MINISTRATION has 1 sense:

1. assistance in time of difficulty

  Familiarity information: MINISTRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINISTRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assistance in time of difficulty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ministration; relief; succor; succour

Context example:

the contributions provided some relief for the victims

Hypernyms ("ministration" is a kind of...):

aid; assist; assistance; help (the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ministration"):

comfort; consolation; solace (the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction)

mercy (alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed)

Derivation:

minister (attend to the wants and needs of others)

 Context examples 

Regularly, each morning after he had finished his breakfast, she performed her self-appointed task, till he came to look for her ministrations as much as he did for Thornton’s.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In her daily ministrations upon the prisoner she was forced to grit her teeth and steel herself, body and spirit.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A patient condition when action or ministration whose purpose is to improve health or to alter the course of a disease is considered essential and mandatory in order to prevent permanent impairment or damage.

(Intervention Required, NCI Thesaurus)