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handmaid::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | handmaiden |
| Type of | amah, housemaid, maid, maidservant |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | handmaiden, servant |
| Type of | subordinateness, subsidiarity |
theology should be the handmaiden of ethics.
Examples of handmaid
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Nature, in such a scene as this, is playing handmaid to its human proprietor.
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The handmaid is to lie between the Wife's legs as if they are one person.
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The beautiful Yehenara, like the Jewess Hager, was the handmaid who was to bear a son for her master.
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Inflation is the handmaid of the paper system.
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Sarai then offered her Egyptian handmaid, Hagar, for Abram to consort with so that she may have a child by her, as a wife.
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They made a few handmaid wedding invitations for a few people using pics they took in those picture cabins in shopping centers.
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Through another handmaid, Ofglen, Offred learns of the Mayday resistance, an underground network with the intent of overthrowing Gilead.
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Offred learns that the Commander carried on a similar relationship with his previous handmaid and that she killed herself when his wife found out.
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Seeing that she had left off childbearing temporarily, Leah then gave her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob in marriage so that Leah could raise more children through her.
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- In a subordinate position; "theology should be the handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of the church"
- A personal maid or female attendant
- A handmaiden (or handmaid) is a female attendant, assistant, servant, or slave.
- (Handmaids) are fertile women whose social function is to bear children for the Wives.
- Servant (Gen 16:1; Rut 3:9; Luk 1:48). It is probable that Hagar was Sarah's personal attendant while she was in the house of Pharaoh, and was among those maid-servants whom Abram had brought from Egypt.
- A servant girl, usually attending to one person.
