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penury


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Penury  \Pen"u*ry\,  n.  [L.  penuria  cf  Gr  ?  hunger,  ?  poverty, 
  need  ?  one  who  works  for  his  daily  bread,  a  poor  man,  ?  to 
  work  for  one's  daily  bread,  to  be  poor:  cf  F.  p['e]nurie.] 
  1.  Absence  of  resources;  want  privation;  indigence;  extreme 
  poverty;  destitution.  ``A  penury  of  military  forces.'' 
  --Bacon. 
 
  They  were  exposed  to  hardship  and  penury.  --Sprat. 
 
  It  arises  in  neither  from  penury  of  thought. 
  --Landor. 
 
  2.  Penuriousness;  miserliness.  [Obs.]  --Jer.  Taylor. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  penury 
  n  :  a  state  of  extreme  poverty  or  destitution;  "their  indigence 
  appalled  him";  "a  general  state  of  need  exists  among  the 
  homeless"  [syn:  {indigence},  {need},  {pauperism}] 




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