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Word of the Day for Wednesday March 22, 2006
succor \SUH-kuhr\, noun: 1. Aid; help; assistance; especially, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress. 2. The person or thing that brings relief.
transitive verb: 1. To help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve.
In Asakusa, a crowd sought succor around an old and lovely Buddhist temple, dedicated to Kannon, goddess of mercy. -- Richard B. Frank, [1]Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
Ever since I was five, I have inserted myself into every movie I've seen and gratefully, humbly found succor there. -- Laurie Fox, [2]My Sister from the Black Lagoon
There was some talk about the perils of the sea, and a landsman delivered himself of the customary nonsense about the poor mariner wandering in far oceans, tempest-tossed, pursued by dangers, every storm blast and thunderbolt in the home skies moving the friends by snug firesides to compassion for that poor mariner, and prayers for his succor. -- Mark Twain, "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion," [3]The Atlantic, November 1877
He honors the old, succors the infirm, raises the downtrodden, destroys fanaticism. -- Alan Jolis, [4]Love and Terror _________________________________________________________
Succor derives from Latin succurrere, "to run under, to run or hasten to the aid or assistance of someone," from sub-, "under" + currere, "to run."
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