| 单词 | succourless |
| 释义 | succourless, a. Now rare.|ˈsʌkəlɪs|
[f. succour n. + -less.]
1. Of persons or conditions: Without help, helpless; freq. without resources or means of subsistence, desititute.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. 1357 Pollidamas..stood, Socourles from al remedie. 1535Coverdale Prov. xxxi. 8 Be thou an aduocate.. to speake for all soch as be domme & sucourles. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 412 Beyng succourlesse, and wandering vp & downe, at the last he was taken in a towne called Plashey in Essex. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. vi. i, Whose speech may ease our succorlesse estate. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 506 These once happy Iles..are Metamorphosed in the Anatomy of succourlesse oppression. 1641Stockton on Tees Par. Reg., A poor succourless boy was buried 28 March. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry iii. ix. 112 Fighting alone succourlesse with five of the King of Portugal's ships. 1736Thomson Liberty iv. 120 What Conflagrations, Earthquakes, Ravage,..succourless, and bare, the poor Remains Of Wretches forth to Nature's Common cast? 1828Lytton Pelham III. xi, The hopeless and succourless bed of death. 1876Daily News 18 Dec. 5/2 On the Hattia island, where the people were three days succourless.
absol.1443Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 210 Visite the poore, and of compassioun, Nakyd and needy, and hungry socourlees. 1536Wyatt Penit. Ps., 2nd Prol. 20 Wks. (1913) 216 A..refuge for to save The Socourles. a1586Sidney Ps. x. viii, The succour of the succourles. a1658Cleveland Poems, etc. (1677) 152 You are tyed by your Order to give Protection to the Weak and Succourless.
b. transf. of a thing.
1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. i. iv, Cold Winter's rage..makes the sap leave succourlesse the shoot.
†2. Affording no refuge. Obs.
1601Deacon & Walker Spirits & Divels 233 You are now fledde..to the succourlesse shelter of that your weather beaten action. |
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