holpen

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A form of help — Action given to provide assistance; aid.

OriginMiddle English holpen ← Old English ġeholpen ← Proto-Germanic *hulpanaz →
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Meanings

verb
  1. archaicparticiplepastpast participle of help

    […]Was crackt in twaine, but by his fooliſh feare: / Was holpen vp, who him ſupported ſtanding neare.

    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
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    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.

    1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 86:17, signature Fff, verso, column 2

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*hulpanaz
  2. Old Englishġeholpen
  3. Middle Englishholpen
  4. Englishholpen

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”).

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APA

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MLA

“holpen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/holpen. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “holpen,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/holpen.

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