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Word Meanings - HELPMEET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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  • CONSORTSHIP
    The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
  • CONSORT
    A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest,
  • CONSORTABLE
    Suitable for association or companionship. Sir H. Wotton.
  • AVOIDLESS
    Unavoidable; inevitable.
  • ABANDON
    To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
  • AVOIDANCE
    1. The act of annulling; annulment. 2. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . .
  • EXCLUDE
    Etym: 1. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from
  • SPOUSE
    fr. L. sponsus, sponsa, prop. p.p. of spondere, sponsum, to promise solemnly, to engage one's self. Cf. Despond, Espouse, respond, 1. A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife. At last such grace I found, and
  • AVOIDER
    1. The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson. 2. One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
  • BANISHMENT
    The act of banishing, or the state of being banished. He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies. Johnson. Round the wide world in banishment we roam. Dryden. Syn. -- Expatriation; ostracism; expulsion; proscription; exile; outlawry.
  • ABANDONER
    One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.
  • SPOUSELESS
    Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.
  • SPOUSE-BREACH
    Adultery.
  • AVOIDABLE
    1. Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale. 2. Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
  • ABANDONEE
    One to whom anything is legally abandoned.
  • BLACKBALL
    1. A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work. 2. A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.
  • CONSORTION
    Fellowship; association; companionship. Sir T. Browne.
  • ABANDONEDLY
    Unrestrainedly.
  • BANISHER
    One who banishes.
  • EXCOMMUNICATE
    Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. -- n.
  • ESPOUSER
    One who espouses; one who embraces the cause of another or makes it his own.
  • DISESPOUSE
    To release from espousal or plighted faith. Milton.
  • UNAVOIDED
    1. Not avoided or shunned. Shak. 2. Unavoidable; inevitable. B. Jonson.
  • REBANISH
    To banish again.
  • ESPOUSE
    espouse, fr. sponsus betrothed, p. p. of spondere to promise solemnly 1. To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse. A virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph. Luke i. 27. 2. To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry. Lavinia

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