A kind-hearted person, especially a woman, who nurses or comforts others.
〈常幽默〉好心人（尤指护理或抚慰他人的善良妇女）
Example sentencesExamples
In William Wellman's ‘Night Nurse,’ she serves as ministering angel to a wounded bootlegger and two rich children being starved to death.
They were women who idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.
Besides, she was a distinguished Indologist with her own career to pursue, whereas Elizabeth was a ministering angel.
To many men, a nurse in a pub might just be mistaken for a ministering angel.
I had chosen Mira because, apart from her ministering angel looks, she possessed both these qualities in ample amounts.
They often descend in the guise of ministering angels to perform hidden deeds of mercy.
Bob Geldolf rightly pointed out that not all women are ministering angels.
Well, a ministering angel flew out of the night.
Origin
Early 17th century: with biblical allusion to Mark 1:13.