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penury
(mass) | penury
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penury
(encz) | penury,bída n: Petr Prášek |
penury
(encz) | penury,nouze n: Petr Prášek |
Penury
(gcide) | 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.
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They were exposed to hardship and penury. --Sprat.
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It arises in neither from penury of thought.
--Landor.
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2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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penury
(wn) | penury
n 1: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
homeless" [syn: indigence, need, penury, pauperism,
pauperization] |
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