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helpful, a.|ˈhɛlpfʊl|
[f. help n. + -ful.]
Full of help; having the quality of rendering or affording help; useful, serviceable, profitable. a. of persons.
c1340Cursor M. 14395 (Trin.) Her owne lord ful of blis Þat so helpful [earlier MSS. helpand] was to his. 1382Wyclif 1 Macc. ii. 21 God be helpful to us. c1611Chapman Iliad xiii. (R.), But Aiax Telemonius, had many helpfull men. 1796Burke Corr. IV. 404 My friend and kinsman, Nagle, who has indeed been very helpful to me. 1858Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 353 Charlotte is much kinder and helpfuller than Anne was.
b. of things.
1382Wyclif 1 Macc. iv. 56 Helpful thingis of heryingis. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 77, I holde it helpfful that on of us with ȝow be had. 1599Minsheu Sp. Gram. 21 Called Verbum auxiliarium, a helpfull verbe. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 39 Heauens make our presence and our practises Pleasant and helpfull to him. a1779Warburton Wks. IX. iii. (R.), A pursuit or an abhorrence of what is helpful or hurtful. 1883Congregationalist Sept. 729 One of the ablest, helpfullest books on the subject. |