succorance
\ SUHK-er-uh ns \ , noun;
1.the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
Quotes:
Here, food in general, and the feeding of someone else in particular…are equated with love, succorance , with a bond between caring parties, with the largely selfless, human act, and Chaplin uses food in motifs that point us toward what distinguishes a civilized society from a jungle.
-- Jay Boyer, "Cry Food: The Use of Food as a Comic Motif in the Films of Charlie Chaplin," Beyond the Stars: Studies in American Film , 1993
Here Woolf returns to her metaphor of the outsider seeking warmth, shelter, succorance , yet courting danger.
-- Shirley Panken, Virginia Woolf and the "Lust of Creation," 1987
Origin:
Succorance is formed from the root word succor meaning "help; relief." Succor , in turn, stems from the Latin term succurrere meaning "to go beneath, run to help." Succorance entered English in the 1930s.
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