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noun

Handmaiden, Handmaid n.

A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.

Something or someone serving in a subordinate position; as, theology should be the handmaiden of ethics.

Synonyms: handmaid, servant.

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Etymology of 'Handmaiden'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Handmaiden" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the Lord that the day should come, When he that slayeth you will think that he doeth God service. Most madly did the mob, the governor and the soldiers, rage against the handmaiden Blandina, in whom Christ showed that what seems mean among men is of price with Him. For whilst we all, and her earthly mistress, who was herself one of the contending Martyrs, were fearful lest through the weakness of the flesh ...

— Marius the Epicurean, Volume Two • Walter Horatio Pater

... handmaiden of Christianity, but may more appropriately be designated its loyal helpmeet. Whatever synagogue or other melodies may have first served to voice the sentiments kindled by the Gospel of Glad Tidings it was inevitable that the new religious thought should ...

— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore

... and her small niece lived together, with a tall and gaunt handmaiden Norman French, and a broad Yorkshire gardener. Miss Barry was the old cream of Yerbury. Here her family had lived since the Huguenot persecution, and dwindled finally to two. Louis Barry was a dissipated spendthrift. He married, and tormented his wife into an early ...

— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas

... instrument of God in bringing the triumph of His Kingdom one stage nearer its accomplishment. And in especial we rejoice because we see in her one more, and the most marked, illustration of the divine method. "He hath regarded the low estate of His Handmaiden." "He hath exalted them of low degree." "He hath filled the hungry." The method of God is to work to His results through those who are spiritually receptive. The less of self there is in us the more room there ...

— Our Lady Saint Mary • J. G. H. Barry

... she. She has to do his foul work; as she had to do for King Henry, as she is doing it now for Queen Bess; and as she will always have to do, God help her, so long as she is wedded to the nation, instead of being free as the handmaiden and spouse of Christ alone. My faith would be lost, Mr. Norris, and my heart broken quite, if I were forced to think the Church of England to be ...

— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson

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