Succor vs Indemnify - What's the difference?
succor | indemnify | Related terms |
Aid, assistance or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
* 1670 , , letter to Lord Arlington, in The Works of Sir William Temple ,
(senseid)(chiefly, legal) To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury
* 1906 , Civil Code of the State of California [http://books.google.com/books?id=Vds3AAAAIAAJ], page 405:
(obsolete, rare) to hurt, to harm
*1583 , Thomas Stocker's translation of A tragicall historie of the troubles and ciuile warres of the lowe Countries , i. 63a
*:He... did not belieue]] that his [[Majesty, Maiestie by this occasion coulde any way be endemnified .
*1593 , Thomas Lodge, Life & Death of William Long Beard , E ij
*:What harme the Rhodians haue]] [[done, doone thee, that thou so much indemnifiest them?
Succor is a related term of indemnify.
As verbs the difference between succor and indemnify
is that succor is to give such assistance while indemnify is to secure against loss or damage; to insure or indemnify can be (obsolete|rare) to hurt, to harm.As a noun succor
is aid, assistance or relief given to one in distress; ministration.succor
English
Alternative forms
* succourNoun
(-)Synonyms
* (to give assistance) help, aid, assist, support, sustain, relieveAntonyms
* (to give assistance) hurt, damageDerived terms
* succorerAnagrams
* English transitive verbsindemnify
English
Etymology 1
From (forming verbs'')''Oxford English Dictionary , 1st ed. "indemnify, v.1". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1900.Verb
(en-verb)page 101:
- The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out.
- The lender of a thing for use must indemnify the borrower for damage caused by defects or vices in it, which he knew at the time of lending, and concealed from the borrower.
