assisting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of assist

noun

1. 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.”

adj

1. (archaic)Helpful; auxiliary (to).

   “In the meantime, he plainly perceived that she would not stoop to be directly assisting to his views on Laura.”