About The Word Penury
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Penury
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What's The Definition Of Penury?
[n] a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Penury: beggary | indigence | need | pauperism | pauperization Related Terms | Find terms related to Penury: bare cupboard | bare subsistence | beggarliness | beggary | deprivation | destitution | empty purse | grinding poverty | gripe | hand-to-mouth existence | homelessness | impecuniousness | impoverishment | indigence | lack | mendicancy | moneylessness | necessitousness | necessity | need | neediness | pauperism | pauperization | pinch | poorness | privation | want See Also | impoverishment | poorness | poverty Penury In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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