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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: penury (0.00900 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to penury.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: penury
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,
beggary,
pauperism,
pauperization]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Penury
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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