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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of help.

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help +‎ -est

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Examples

  • “In sooth, my dear son, if thou takest refuge in the churches and helpest to clear away spiders and buzzing flies, and criest unto God like the young ravens, and commendest thyself to the eternal Creator, all will be well with thee, and that even if the whole world were full of wild malicious birds.”

    Household Tales 2003

  • He came and struck the top of the altar, saying, 'O wolf, wolf, thou that devourest all the good things of Israel, and yet in a time of straits helpest them not.'

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him: Thou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

  • And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer met him, and said to him: Thou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 14: 2 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision

  • Salutations to thee that causest rain, that helpest the cause of righteousness, that art identifiable with the form of Nandi, and that art Righteousness 'self!

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Thou helpest the ungodly, and thou art joined in friendship with them that hate the Lord, and therefore thou didst deserve indeed the wrath of the Lord:

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • They utter commandments, but Thou helpest to the fulfilling of them.

    II. Book III: On Inward Consolation. What the Truth saith inwardly without Noise of Words 1909

  • And if thou failest of this, thou forfeitest against God in all thy lordship, in body and soul; principally if thou maintainest antichrist’s disciples in their errors against Christ’s life and His teaching, for blindness and worldly friendship, and helpest to slander and pursue true men that teach Christ’s gospel and His life.

    Rules for Decent Living 1906

  • Therefore, says S. Austin, "He Who made thee without thee, will not justify thee without thee"; that is, "He Who made thee without thee, will not make thee righteous, save thou helpest thereunto."

    The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901

  • It tells in the life of the holy Fathers that one who was bound in sin came to the holy Abbot, S. Anthony, and said, "holy Father, have mercy on me and pray for me:" to whom the holy Abbot said; "I will have no mercy on thee, unless thou helpest thyself and leavest thy sin."

    The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901

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