succourless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Without succour; with no source of aid.

"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."

From succour + -less.

succorless (alternative)

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