Succourless
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Succourless is an adjective meaning Without succour; with no source of aid.
Meaning
Without succour; with no source of aid.
Example Sentences
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;—[…]
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.
Word Forms
- succorless
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include succorless, assistless, recourseless, reliefless, unhelped, helpless.
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