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helpmate

[ help-meyt ]

noun

  1. a companion and helper.
  2. a spouse.
  3. anything that aids or assists, especially regularly:

    This calculator is my constant helpmate.



helpmate

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noun

  1. a companion and helper, esp a wife
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Origin of helpmate1

1705–15; help + mate 1, by association with helpmeet
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But when Styron had depression in the 1980s she was a stalwart helpmate in his recovery, and encouraged him to write “Darkness Visible,†the memoir that has become one of his best known works.

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On the face of it, your partner doesn’t seem to have placed a high priority on being your stalwart helpmate.

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And Guenevere is now a strategic helpmate, periodically outthinking her husband.

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“Emma Smith was far more than an appendage and helpmate to prominent men,†the authors wrote.

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There he was, helping her with the occasional button, doing the cooking, driving her everywhere — a helpmate in life for an extraordinary woman who had been blind since shortly after birth.

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