ministering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of minister

1. not comparableOf one who, or something that, administers.

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   Hitherto all that I had acquired had been unsatisfactory—the reward was too distant; but Carrara's mystic eloquence brought the result of our midnight vigils visibly before me; and when I left him, it was to dream of the glorious secrets which, once penetrated, would lay all nature open to our eyes, and leave all its ministering spirits bowed to our rule by spell and sign.

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 126

plural ministerings

1. The act of one who ministers; ministration.

   I could not be in your daughter's company, and have the grace of her gentle ministerings.

   1896, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife