succor

English

From Middle English socour, derived from the verb sucuren, borrowed from Old French secorre, sucurir (“to rescue, remedy”), from Latin succurrō (“go beneath, run for cover, run for help”, verb), from sub- + currō (“run”, verb). More at sub-, current.

succor (uncountable)

(archaic or obsolete, American spelling) Aid, assistance or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
- 1579, Immeritô, The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:
  Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.
- 1690, Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian, Jacob Tonson, page 43:
  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;

Aid, assistance or relief from distress

succor (third-person singular simple present succors, present participle succoring, simple past and past participle succored)

to give such assistance

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