succor:
noun:
- aid; help; assistance; especially, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress
- the person or thing that brings relief
transitive verb:
- to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve
Example: 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. [Reference: Mark Twain, "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion", The Atlantic , November 1877]
