[-ING2.] That succours; bringing or affording help or assistance.
a. 1616. Jonson, Epigr., Voyage, 30. Alcides, be thou succouring to my song.
1704. Trapp, Abra-Mulé, I. i. Leading on His succ’ring Troops to raise the Siege of Buda.
1782. Miss Burney, Cecilia, V. xi. The soothing recompense of succouring benevolence.
1836. Newman, in Lyra Apost. (1849), 111. Each trial has its weight; which whoso bears, Knows his own woe, and need of succouring grace.
a. 1901. W. Bright, Age Fathers (1903), I. xix. 381. He wrote … to express his regret that as yet no succouring hand had been held out to the suffering Eastern Church.
