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succour

noun
/ˈsʌkə/UK/ˈsʌkɚ/US

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English socour, interpreted as the singular form of socours (“help; encouragement; remedy; protection; helper, protector”), which is from Anglo-Norman socurs, sucurs and Old French secors, secours (modern French secours), from Medieval Latin succursus (participle), from Latin succurrēre (“to run to the help of”), from Latin sub- (“from below”) + Latin currere (“run”). The verb is derived from Middle English socouren (“to help”), from Anglo-Norman socure (compare modern French secourir), also from Latin succurrēre.

  1. derived from socure
  2. inherited from socouren — “to help”
  3. derived from currō
  4. derived from sub-
  5. derived from succurro
  6. derived from succursus
  7. derived from secors
  8. derived from socurs
  9. inherited from socour

Definitions

  1. Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress

    Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress; ministration.

    • His hand, that oft the enemy did lame, / He reach't to thoſe whoſe ſuccors were diſmayde; [...]

  2. Aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers, especially…

    Aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers, especially reinforcements sent to support military action.

    • Then Diocleſian, / Calling aloud for Succour to the Guard, / Soon gave 'em the Alarm, and made 'em fly / With all the Wings of Speed, to reſcue 'em; [...]

  3. Protection, refuge, shelter

    Protection, refuge, shelter; (countable) a place providing such protection, refuge or shelter.

    • The gilleflower also, the skilful doe knowe, / doe looke to be couered, in frost and in snowe. / The knot, and the border, and rosemarie gaie, / do craue the like succour for dieng awaie.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To give aid, assistance, or help.

      • [M]y maystres / Of whome I thinke / With pen and ynke / For to compyle / Some goodly stile / For thys moste goodly floure / The blossom of fresh colour / So Jupiter me succour
      • [A]s that famous Queene / Of Amazons, whom Pyrrhus did deſtroy, / The day that firſt of Priame ſhe was ſeene, / Did ſhew her ſelfe in great triumphant ioy, / To ſuccour the weake ſtate of ſad afflicted Troy.
      • For in that he himſelfe [Jesus Christ] hath ſuffered, being tempted, he is able to ſuccour them that are tempted.

    2. To provide aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers

      To provide aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers; in particular, for helping a place under siege.

      • [A] shout of joy burst from the despairing remnant of Major Courtland's troops, and a reinforcement of British rushed through the narrow defile to succour their exhausted comrades.

    3. To protect, to shelter

      To protect, to shelter; to provide a refuge.

      • By this River ſide in the medovv, there vvere Cotes and Folds for Sheep, […] [B]y theſe VVaters they might be houſed, harboured, ſuckered, and nouriſhed, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at succour. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at succour. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at succour

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA