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[ hand-meyd ] / ˈhændˌmeɪd /
nounsomething that is necessarily subservient or subordinate to another: Ceremony is but the handmaid of worship. a female servant or attendant. Also hand·maid·en [hand-meyd-n] /ˈhændˌmeɪd n/ . Origin of handmaidMiddle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at hand, maid Words nearby handmaidhandload, hand log, handloom, handloomed, handmade, handmaid, handmaiden, hand-me-down, hand-me-up, hand mower, hand-off Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for handmaidThe Handmaid only finds liberation when she steals out of her room to bed the chauffeur. The Bizarre Case Against Gay Marriage|Linda Hirshman|January 29, 2010|DAILY BEAST The book in some cases may be a luxury, but in most cases it is a necessary, while always the handmaid of civilization. Charles Sumner; His Complete Works, Volume XI (of 20)|Charles Sumner Painting in Spain was not so much the handmaid, as the bondslave, of the Church. A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools|Various The handmaid Eurycleia is convinced as soon as she has touched the wound upon the hero's foot and felt the well-remembered scar. Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2)|John Addington Symonds
Hope is evryboddy's handmaid—she is a sli coquet and promises menny favors, but grants only a fu, and them are badly diskounted. Josh Billings on Ice|Henry Wheeler Shaw My mother was handmaid unto my Lady Gertrude his wife, and she spake right well of her mistress. The White Rose of Langley|Emily Sarah Holt
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