ministering angel

plural ministering angels

1. A woman considered as a virtuous helper or carer.

   I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be When thou liest howling.

   c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1

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   O, Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

   1808, Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto VI, Stanza 30