holpen

American  

[hohl-puhn] / ˈhoʊl pən /

verb

Nonstandard.

1. a past participle of help.

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holpen British  

/ ˈhəʊlpən /

verb

1. archaic a past participle of help

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Example Sentences

“Welcome, Sir Lancelot Dulac,” they cried, “the flower of all knighthood! By thee we shall be holpen out of danger.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Is there any help to be holpen by?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The land will not be nobler or more holpen If Gunnar burns and we go forth unsinged.

From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon

Putting on his Cloaths he went to his Palace: then he demanded to know who and which they were that had holpen him out of the Water.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Knox, Robert

Gunnlaug says, "Therein thou wast holpen by thy father Egil; and, to end all, it is for few bonders to cast away my alliance."

From The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875 by Morris, William