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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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