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(chiefly historical) 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.
Some years later, the famine of 1867 gave a flying start to the deaconess-house in Helsinki. Aurora Karamsin was to fulfill two goals, one was to meet the need for care for the poor and sick, the other was to provide women, including those from the educated classes, with an opportunity for “self-sacrificing work in the service of humanity”.
The first of the Conferences was held in 1861, just twenty-five years after the founding of the first deaconess house at Kaiserwerth.
Use deaconess-house when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Deaconess-house means (chiefly historical) A house inhabited or operated by deaconesses, providing basic medical attention, care for the poor and sick etc..
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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.
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