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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of succour.

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Examples

  • Today the old certainties have gone because there are two far-right movements: the white neo-Nazi parties that the Left still opposes; and the clerical fascists of radical Islam which, extraordinarily, the modern Left succours and indulges.

    Nick Cohen - "I’m turning into a Jew!" Not a sheep 2009

  • AG: I accept that religious faith on the individual level can be something that sustains and succours people as can a deep commitment to the communist cause, the psychological prop of identifying yourself with something is a well-established fact.

    Is religion a force for good... or would we be happier without God? Anushka Asthana 2010

  • Anyway, it's only dead British soldiers so no need for clinical journalism asking questions such as where these murderers came from, who shelters and succours them, where did they get the weapons to carry out this slaughter at Masserene?

    Archive 2009-03-08 2009

  • Anyway, it's only dead British soldiers so no need for clinical journalism asking questions such as where these murderers came from, who shelters and succours them, where did they get the weapons to carry out this slaughter at Masserene?

    Biased BBC 2009

  • And so evident was this to her counsellors, that they resolved their first step should be to place the Queen in the strong castle of Dunbarton, there to await the course of events, the arrival of succours from France, and the levies which were made by her adherents in every province of Scotland.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Now the cause of the coming of the succours to that place was this.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Nay, this very day, while I was in the act of kneeling at her feet to render her the succours of this pungent quintessence, of purest spirit distilled by the fairest hands of the court of Feliciana, she pushed me from her with looks which savoured of repugnance, and, as I think, thrust at me with her foot as if to spurn me from her presence.

    The Monastery 2008

  • Hartley offered the succours of his profession; the husband flew to support her head, and the instant that Mrs. Witherington began to recover, he whispered to her, in a tone betwixt entreaty and warning, “Zilia, beware — beware!”

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • Most readers must remember that, when the Dutch were on the point of rising against the French yoke, their zeal for liberation received a strong impulse from the landing of a person in a British volunteer uniform, whose presence, though that of a private individual, was received as a guarantee of succours from England.

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • Peloponnesians to prepare, the succours which they intended to send in merchant-vessels to the Syracusans.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

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