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Definition of Helpable
1. help [adj] - See also: help
Lexicographical Neighbors of Helpable
Literary usage of Helpable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1902)
"... MINUTES AND DISCUSSIONS study of the scourge of tuberculosis by state commissions,
or the care of helpable consumptives in state sanatoria. ..."
2. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the by National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session (1900)
"The chairman said, if I understood him, that in studying the problem we are to
ask,— " Is he helpable ? " If he is not, we are to let him go. ..."
3. Introduction to the Study of the Dependent, Defective, and Delinquent by Charles Richmond Henderson (1906)
"It is sometimes said that the field of charity organization is with the "helpable."
If by this is meant that personal ministration in outdoor relief should ..."
4. The Grievances Between Authors & Publishers: Being the Report of the by Society of Authors (Great Britain) (1887)
"The helpable author is not the fashionable novelist, the fashionable essayist,
the successful man who has many other strings to his bow, who has a salary ..."
5. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"I have been overwrought & unsettled in mind by apprehensions, & that is a thing
that is not helpable when one is in a strange land & sees his resources melt ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"... year is given to beggars in the metropolis by the public to relieve their
personal feelings without troubling themselves whether the case is helpable or ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1908)
"... year is given to beggars in the metropolis by the public to relieve their
personal feelings without troubling themselves whether the case is helpable or ..."
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