0 help given to someone, especially someone who is suffering or in need:
Her organization gave succour and strength to those who had been emotionally damaged.
1 to help someone, especially someone who is suffering or in need:
The model is not necessarily relativistic, although it gives succour to relativists.
For the new approaches have nurtured too many absurd-antiquarian, pseudo-precise, jargon-ridden, and precious-professional illusions to succour history long term.
As data find succour in the fit with theory, confidence may rise that such resistance is simply wrong.
In fact, the depots were never used by the expedition, but provided, instead, succour for explorers, trappers, and sealers for years to come.
Far from being an unpleasant necessity, shamanic rituals also may be festive occasions, which offer entertainment as well as succour.
In theory, the welfare system operated to assert the moral obligations of kin by refusing relief wherever family members could be found to provide succour.
Thus, one generation could not take succour from the other.
The old religions would cease to be capable of providing the psychological succour they were supposed to provide.
