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succourless

succourless adjective: without succour; with no source of aid.

Adjective

succourless (not comparable)

  1. Without succour; with no source of aid.
    • Succourleſs as I was, and enfeebled by having ſo long contended with the boiling torrent, I gave myſelf up for loſt, when, as a laſt effort, I hallooed as loud as I could;⁠—[…]1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter V, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 99
    • For in their succorless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cooke with all his marines and muskets would not willingly have dared.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XXIV, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 121

Forms of succourless

alternative formsuccorless

Origin of succourless

From succour + -less.

Questions about succourless

What does succourless mean?
Succourless means without succour; with no source of aid.
What part of speech is succourless?
Succourless is an adjective.

Words near succourless in the dictionary

  1. succourer
  2. succourers
  3. succourest
  4. succoureth
  5. succouring
  6. succourless
  7. succours
  8. succous
  9. succrescence
  10. succrescent
  11. succs

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