Sentence example with the word 'handmaid'

handmaid

abigail, ayah, contrivance, dupe, handmaiden, intermediary, lever, mediator, parlormaid, servant girl, toy

Definition n. in a subordinate position

Last update: September 13, 2015


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Undeterred by the offence which these works gave to his ecclesiastical superiors, he published in 1858 the Einleitung in die Philosophie and Grundriss der Metaphysik, in which he assailed the doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, that philosophy was the handmaid of theology.   [Please select]

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Behold the handmaid of the moon.   [Please select]

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Spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.   [Please select]

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Humanism, by becoming the handmaid of religion, thus passed insensibly into the Reformation.   [Please select]

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"Jane," she said to her handmaid, "Miss Beatrice is late."   [Please select]

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Geometry is desirable, not as a noble intellectual exercise, but as a handmaid to natural philosophy.   [Please select]

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Nay, loyalty had kept it fresh--a loyalty that was the handmaid of faith.   [Please select]

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