succour
IPA: sˈʌkˈʊr
noun
- (uncountable) Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
- (uncountable, military) Aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers, especially reinforcements sent to support military action.
- (uncountable, obsolete except dialectal) Protection, refuge, shelter; (countable) a place providing such protection, refuge or shelter.
verb
- (transitive) To give aid, assistance, or help.
- (transitive, military) To provide aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers; in particular, for helping a place under siege.
- (transitive, obsolete except dialectal) To protect, to shelter; to provide a refuge.
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Examples of "succour" in Sentences
- God, and it creates a prejudice, between them and those who really need their succour, which is almost unsurmountable.
- There were no hopes of succour from the forces known to be in the vicinity; hence there was no alternative but surrender or starvation.
- Having no genuine party, the Whigs seek for succour from the Irish papists; Lord John Russell, however, is only imitating Pym under the same circumstances.
- Joyful was the recognition; for those who had come to their succour were the party from whom they had separated, who had luckily gained the shore before them.
- Church's bounty; but in any case the gift was sweetened by the giver's hand, and the succour was the impartation of a woman's sympathy more than the bestowment of a donor's gift.
- Baron de Viomenil, to ask whether he did not require some succour from the Americans; ~ [10] but the French were not long in taking possession also of the other redoubt, and that success decided soon after the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis, (19th October, 1781.)
- For the time being, that status will have a substantial cheque attached to it, and it will take many decades for the Montenegrins to learn the reality of the construct they join – if they are allowed in – but the "colleagues" will no doubt take succour from the fact that yet another nation is rushing, lemming-like into the fold.
- As the firing was still continued on the French side, Lafayette sent an aide-de-camp to the Baron de Viomenil, to ask whether he did not require some succour from the Americans; ~ [10] but the French were not long in taking possession also of the other redoubt, and that success decided soon after the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis, (19th October, 1781.)
- If Hannah had not been in Spain she would have got in touch with her and begged for her help, and it struck Rue, as she sat in a wicker chair in the conservatory wondering what on earth had happened to her old strength and energy, that although she had many, many acquaintances, there was no one she could actually turn to for the kind of succour Neil had given her.
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