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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An elderly deaconess who refused to denounce her faith during a riot against Christians.
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Because my grandmother was active in the church and had been a deaconess , she knew a lot of people.
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Later while training as a deaconess in London she saw his funeral in 1912.
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So she calmly sat down with deaconess Pat Phillips to plan the funeral.