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succourless

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Without succour; with no source of aid.

not-comparable

Examples

“Succourleſs as I was, and enfeebled by having ſo long contended with the boiling torrent, I gave myſelf up for loſt, when, as a laſt effort, I hallooed as loud as I could;⁠—[…]”
“For in their succorless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cooke with all his marines and muskets would not willingly have⟳ dared.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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