[-ING1.] The action of the vb. SUCCOUR; assistance.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 8301. Þer was ioie … þer miȝt be no more Þan was þer of þat socouringe.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 5777. Ne hadde Tentan come to his socouryng, He hadde be brouȝt to his endyng.
c. 1450. Lovelich, Merlin, 859. J schal comen to ȝow jn Socowrenge.
1530. Palsgr., 272/1. Socouryng, secovrs, ayde.
1538. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), VI. 84. To the sokeringe of his childer.
1626. E. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), I. 265. The defence of the realm, the succouring of the allies of the same.
