Noun
A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLanguage is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. Karl Kraus
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. Branch Rickey
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away. John Wesley
Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions. Learned Hand
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. Alain de Botton
The creative scientist lives in a 'wildness of logic,' where reason is the handmaiden and not the master. Marston Morse