Helpmeet

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:06:34

Help"meet` (?), n. [See Helpmate.]

A wife; a helpmate.

The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. J. H. Newman.

 

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