helpmate

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  • noun

Synonyms for helpmate

noun a helpful partner

Synonyms

  • helpmeet

Related Words

  • better half
  • married person
  • partner
  • spouse
  • mate
References in periodicals archiveBut in return for this 'protection', women must remain caregivers, helpmeets, domestic servants.Misogyny in actionThe wives of artists in movies and literature tend to be doormats or helpmeets, and their psychic anguish and creative fire rarely move from background to centre stage.
Is Alma a feminist heroine?'Phantom Thread' film review: Romance meets baroquePastoral clinicians increasingly took up the role of servants to the status quo and helpmeets to physicians, adding a prayer here and there to buttress the work of the authentic healers." Boisen has envision the clinical pastoral work to be a healing profession to be equated with the work of the physicians.Recovery of Soul: A History and Memoir of the Clinical Pastoral MovementHollywood suffered another blow to the patriarchy yesterday, as Academy Award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkinlong criticized for his tendency to give female characters cutesy, alliterative names and place them as whip-smart, wisecracking, but ultimately supportive helpmeets to the powerful and high-profile men they worship (see Newsroom, The)has officially become "woke."Aaron Sorkin Gets Schooled in Hollywood's Diversity IssuesOnly by relearning to see armed conflict as a morally charged strategy, with lawyers as minor helpmeets, can we even begin to hope to find peace.Rules of disengagement: how the lawyerly discourse of drone warfare misses the pointMaggie and Martha, Alice and Rosie were helpmeets in theA Woman's PlaceBelieving that the pentecostal revival that began in 1905 had inaugurated a new era in Indian Christianity, Abrams exhorted American believers to come alongside the "spirit-filled young people" who were ready to "go out to evangelize their own people." Having "seen the Holy Spirit poured out in marvelous power upon the Indian Christian church," Abrams was certain that the evangelization of India would proceed primarily through native converts in partnership with Western pentecostals, who could serve as helpmeets to their "yokefellows" through both intercessory prayer and physical presence.Pentecostal missions and the changing character of global ChristianityIn the first, women are helpmeets and warriors, whereas in the second, the same women's roles are diminished.Harem fantasy and realityBut they also wanted gentlemanly, moral husbands who would value them as companions as well as helpmeets, lust like their bachelor counterparts, these women seldom itemized a man's physical appearance.Canadian romance: a trove of letters provides a glimpse into early 20th-century love and courtshipRather, women were seen as assistants or "helpmeets" to their male colleagues or, in some cases, their husbands.The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science (2010)As women's roles degenerate from pre-Christian, pre-Islamic traditional Igbo egalitarian roles to those of sexual and servile helpmeets, the women preferred by dominated men are no longer the assertive, bare-breasted women who resist seduction and defy domination, but women who willingly barter sex of the most humiliating kind for enough coins to buy their children food.The circle and the cross: womanhood, manhood, and cultural destruction in prophetic African literatureIt's a dirty little secret of nursing: those handmaidens and helpmeets who take a subordinate role to the great Medical Deity are the ones directing your care."Those handmaidens and helpmeets known as nursesThat Perseus also thinks of "his dear mother" when he spots from the air "the island of Seriphus" renders this moment even more illuminating, for it conjoins domesticity, science, and visionary splendor as helpmeets in the youth's heroic quest, which, imprinted in Hawthorne's text, represents imaginative enterprise (29).Blending science and classicism in a New Moral pedagogy: a fresh look at Hawthorne's Wonder-BookThe numerous humanitarian nonprofits in Afghanistan are no longer backed up by the military; it is they who are backing the armed forces, having morphed into helpmeets to a counterinsurgency campaign.Care tactics: Samantha Power and the weaponization of human rightsAt a time when women were expected to be domestic helpmeets, angels in the house, Fortune freely admitted in her autobiographical journalism to being self-supporting, without the benefit of spouse.Mary Fortune's three murder mysteries