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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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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.

helpmeet ‎(plural helpmeets)

A helpful partner, particularly a spouse.
- 1839, The Friend's Intelligencer, volume 1, number 24, Eighth month 1st, 1839, article Friend's Discipline, pages 456–457:
  [on vocabulary errors] … and helpmates for meet-helps—the difference of the meaning of the two words is so obvious, that it is surprising it should have escaped attention.—A person may be a helpmate and at the same time be very far from being a help-meet, which is here intended.