different between succour vs assuagement
succour
English
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English socour [and other forms], which was erroneously treated as the singular form of socours (“aid, assistance, help; encouragement; support; remedy, relief; sustenance; military assistance or relief; protection, refuge; helper; protector”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman socurs, sucurs, and Old French secors, secours, socors, socorse (compare Anglo-Norman soccour, socur, succour, succur, variants of Old French secor; modern French secours (“aid, assistance, help”)), from Medieval Latin succursus (“act of succouring”), from Latin succurr?re, from succurr? (“to run to the aid of; to aid, help; to go under, run beneath; to undergo”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + curr? (“to run; to hasten, hurry; to move, proceed, travel; to traverse”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (“to run”)). The English word is cognate with Italian soccorso (“aid, assistance, help, succour”).
The verb is derived from Middle English socouren (“to aid, assist, help; to provide for one's needs, maintain, support; to assuage, relieve, remedy; to comfort; to provide military assistance; to rescue, save; to give refuge or shelter to; to defend, protect”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman socure [and other forms] (compare Middle French secourir, Old French succurir, sucurir (“to rescue; to remedy”); modern French secourir (“to help out; to succour”)), from Latin succurr?re; see further above. The English word is cognate with Italian soccorrere (“to assist, help”), Occitan secorrer, socorre, Portuguese socorrer (“to help, succour; to rescue”), Spanish socorrer (“to aid, assist, help, succour; to pay on account”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?k?/
- (General American) enPR: s?k?r, IPA(key): /?s?k?/
- Homophone: sucker
- Hyphenation: suc?cour
Noun
succour (countable and uncountable, plural succours) (British spelling)
- (uncountable) Aid, assistance, or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
- (uncountable, military) Aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers, especially reinforcements sent to support military action.
- (uncountable, obsolete except dialectal) Protection, refuge, shelter; (countable) a place providing such protection, refuge or shelter.
Alternative forms
- succor (American spelling)
Derived terms
- succourless, succorless (American spelling)
- unsuccoured, unsuccored (American spelling)
Translations
Verb
succour (third-person singular simple present succours, present participle succouring, simple past and past participle succoured) (British spelling)
- (transitive) To give aid, assistance, or help.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:help
- Antonyms: see Thesaurus:hurt
- (transitive, military) To provide aid or assistance in the form of military equipment and soldiers; in particular, for helping a place under siege.
- (transitive, obsolete except dialectal) To protect, to shelter; to provide a refuge.
Conjugation
Alternative forms
- succor (American spelling)
Derived terms
- succourer, succorer (American spelling)
Translations
References
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assuagement
English
Etymology
From assuage +? -ment.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /??swe?d??m?nt/
- Hyphenation: as?suage?ment
Noun
assuagement (countable and uncountable, plural assuagements)
- The action of assuaging; appeasement.
- The condition of being assuaged.
- 1797, Ann Radcliffe, The Italian, or The Confessional of the Black Penitents, London: T. Cadell Junior & W. Davies, Volume II, Chapter 7, pp. 234-235,[1]
- This was the sole consideration, that afforded any degree of assuagement to her sufferings.
- 1797, Ann Radcliffe, The Italian, or The Confessional of the Black Penitents, London: T. Cadell Junior & W. Davies, Volume II, Chapter 7, pp. 234-235,[1]
- An assuaging medicine or application.
Synonyms
- (action of assuaging): alleviation
- (condition of being assuaged): relief, respite
Translations
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