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- adjective Without
succour ; with no source ofaid .
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Examples
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For Thou art, O Lord, the Succour of the succourless, the Hope of the hopeless,
The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes. Vol. I 1555-1626 1899
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Such miserable events are of rare occurrence, but show how open, wild, and succourless the country still remains.
The Open Air Richard Jefferies 1867
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Or guide him, shelterless, succourless, thrust from his own.
Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. Jean Ingelow 1858
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For in their succourless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cook with all his marines and muskets would not willingly have dared.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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I continued: -- This poor wretch is deserted, dying, succourless; in these unhappy times, God knows how soon any or all of us may be in like want.
II.7 1826
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Wallace is friendless and succourless; but cannot I supply to him the place of protector and nurse?
Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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I continued: — “This poor wretch is deserted, dying, succourless; in these unhappy times, God knows how soon any or all of us may be in like want.
The Last Man 2003
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I continued: -- "This poor wretch is deserted, dying, succourless; in these unhappy times, God knows how soon any or all of us may be in like want.
The Last Man 1826
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"This poor wretch is deserted, dying, succourless; in these unhappy times,
The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824
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