Deaconesses

noun

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.nounA female deacon.

2.nounA female servant in the early Christian church.

3.nounThe nun in charge of the altar in a convent.

4.nounOne of an order of women in some Protestant churches who nurse the sick and tend the poor.

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