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n. - Someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty.

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  • Those two words, deacon and benefactor, were translated in the King James version as "servant" and "succourer."
  • In the courts of the Almighty, for this frail being thy sacred spirit intercedeth, and in this darksome world, the sweet memory of thee is the succourer and friend of...
  • Nor against all the wrongs of time one succourer arose:
  • As a succourer of many, and particularly of Paul, v. 2.
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