succour
noun
help or assistance, esp in time of difficulty
succourer
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a word derived from
succour.
Example Sentences
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Besides owning Liddesdale, he had lands in Dumfriesshire, and in the Lothians, and he might have been like the "Bold Buccleuch," a succourer of widows, and a defender of the oppressed and the destitute.
From Tales From Scottish Ballads by Allan Stewart
If any little one wanted a succourer in distress, Skreekinbroot was the lad to whom he, or she, turned.
From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
This is the way, beloved, in which we find Jesus Christ our salvation, the chief-priest of our offerings, our protector, and the succourer of our weakness.
From Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by James Endell Tyler
I trust I could have taken a real flogging with as close lips as anybody, but if my kind succourer wanted howls, howls he should have.
From Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle
"But what's the matter?" asked Hilda, the strong succourer.
From Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett
