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# holp

verb, past tense of help

«holp» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

Gave help to someone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/holp/#m1)

### Then and now

No longer used; today we say "helped". "Holp" is an old past tense form of "help".

### Note

Today: helped.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «holp» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/holp/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«holp» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/holp.html) on Mova free.