deaconess-house

noun

Definitions

  1. A house inhabited or operated by deaconesses, providing basic medical attention, care for…

    A house inhabited or operated by deaconesses, providing basic medical attention, care for the poor and sick etc.

    • At the age of twenty (in June 1905), I began working as a probationer nurse at the Halle Deaconess House, as I had now reached the required age.
    • The first of the Conferences was held in 1861, just twenty-five years after the founding of the first deaconess house at Kaiserwerth.

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