Meaning of PENURY
| Pronunciation: | | 'penyuree
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| | Definition: | | [n] a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" |
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| | Synonyms: | | beggary, indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization |
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| | See Also: | | impoverishment, poorness, poverty | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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