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handmaiden

DEFINITIONS OF: handmaiden

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n a personal maid or female attendant

Synonyms:
handmaid
Type of:
amah, housemaid, maid, maidservant
a female domestic

n in a subordinate position

“theology should be the handmaiden of ethics”
Synonyms:
handmaid, servant
Type of:
subordinateness, subsidiarity
secondary importance
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