holpen
See also: hölpen
English
Etymology
From Middle English holpen, yholpen (past participle of helpen (“to help”)), from Old English ġeholpen (past participle of helpan (“to help”)), from Proto-Germanic *hulpanaz (past participle of *helpaną (“to help”)). More at help. Cognate with Dutch geholpen (“holpen”) and German geholfen (“holpen”).
Verb
holpen
- (archaic) past participle of help
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 8, page 458:
- […] Was crackt in twaine, but by his fooliſh feare: / Was holpen vp, who him ſupported ſtanding neare.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 86:17:
- Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.
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