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assisting en · ADJ
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(archaic) Helpful; auxiliary (to).
In the meantime, he plainly perceived that she would not stoop to be directly assisting to his views on Laura.
1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 105:
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unassisting
assisting en · NOUN
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assistance; help given
[…] through atonement for sin by the death of Christ the world has been blessed with a dispensation of helping influences — the gracious and altogether sufficient assistings of the Holy Ghost.
1871, The Bible Christian magazine, a continuation of the Arminian magazine:
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assisting en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of assist