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单词 meet-help
释义 meet-help Obs.
[orig. two words like help meet in Gen. ii. 18, 20: subseq. combined as in sweet heart, good wife, etc.]
A fitting helper; = helpmeet.
[1641J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 18 The end of her Creation; which was, to be a meet help for him.a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) Life 15 Enjoying the comfortable Society of that meet Help for the space of fourty nine years.]1696Whiston Th. Earth ii. (1722) 96 Among all these Creatures there was not a Meet-help, or suitable Companion for him.
So meet-helper; also meet-helping, the condition of being a helpmeet.
1636W. Strode Floating Isl. iv. iii, Recreation much consisteth in The yoak of a meet helper.1869Bushnell Wom. Suffrage iv. 74 Woman is created to be the meet-helper of man.Ibid. i. 18 The husbanding and meet-helping of the marriage bond itself.
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