Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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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