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- adjective
comparative form ofhelpful : morehelpful
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Examples
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He saw that she was cheerfuller than she had been, and helpfuller with him and her mother.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 1878
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The kind of novels he likes, and likes to write, are intended to take his reader's mind, or what that reader would probably call his mind, off himself; they make one forget life and all its cares and duties; they are not in the least like the novels which make you think of these, and shame you into at least wishing to be a helpfuller and wholesomer creature than you are.
Criticism and Fiction William Dean Howells 1878
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The kind of novels he likes, and likes to write, are intended to take his reader's mind, or what that reader would probably call his mind, off himself; they make one forget life and all its cares and duties; they are not in the least like the novels which make you think of these, and shame you into at least wishing to be a helpfuller and wholesomer creature than you are.
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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She entertained the wish to work, not only 'for the sake of Somebody,' as her favourite poet sang, but for the sake of working and serving -- proving that she was helpfuller than a Countess of Ormont, ranged with all the other countesses in china and Dresden on a drawing-room mantelpiece for show.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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She entertained the wish to work, not only 'for the sake of Somebody,' as her favourite poet sang, but for the sake of working and serving -- proving that she was helpfuller than a Countess of Ormont, ranged with all the other countesses in china and Dresden on a drawing-room mantelpiece for show.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868
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She entertained the wish to work, not only 'for the sake of Somebody,' as her favourite poet sang, but for the sake of working and serving -- proving that she was helpfuller than a Countess of Ormont, ranged with all the other countesses in china and Dresden on a drawing-room mantelpiece for show.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Charlotte is much kinder and helpfuller than Anne was, and the comfort of talking with you now and/[Page
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