Posted on 03/23/2006 5:22:18 AM PST by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
succor \SUH-kuhr\, noun:
1. Aid; help; assistance; especially, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.
2. The person or thing that brings relief.
transitive verb:
1. To help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve.
Example sentence:
There was some talk about the perils of the sea, and a landsman delivered himself of the customary nonsense about the poor mariner wandering in far oceans, tempest-tossed, pursued by dangers, every storm blast and thunderbolt in the home skies moving the friends by snug firesides to compassion for that poor mariner, and prayers for his succor.
-- Mark Twain, "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion," The Atlantic, November 1877
Etymology: Succor derives from Latin succurrere, "to run under, to run or hasten to the aid or assistance of someone," from sub-, "under" + currere, "to run."
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Laura gaives no succor to the treasonous lefty media
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601559/posts
no tanks.
OMG did DUKE LOSE??? LMAO!!!
duke vitale must be in deep mourning!! i am loving that UNC and DUKE were both upset!
My bracket is shredded :(
Forget Vitale, I am in mourning.
I await the FR flames from RNC central
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601416/posts?page=1220#1220
i cannot get fired up about politics, when i have a bishop who is letting girls go up on the altar.
i am so sorry sweetums, but dang it is good to see Duke lose. i am now hoping for Uconn to get beat. who do they play next>?
Wahsington
Bishop Bruskewitz stands alone. Of course one man and God constitute a majority.
i doubt HE will cave. we got the sop of 2 Latin mass indults in the diocese, in exchange for giving in to the feminazis. i am pretty confident father o'brien will not permit it at st james. the rest of the parishes are no doubt high fiving over this.
YOU are playing with fire tonight. ;)
-we have had altar girls for at least twenty years. Keep on fighting. At least you still remember what it was like.
Wow. And JPII didn't cave until a decade ago.
I take back the wow, I'm not surprised....given your goepgraphic locale.
If you are referring to 247, I figured I'd throw the rock and wait for the first dog to bark, that's how you know who you hit...
Just like a famous German monk.....
I tend to stay on the porch, not run with the big dogs.....but I will watch with interest. :^)
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