01 n. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
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Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.“They were exposed to hardship and penury.” — Sprat.“It arises in neither from penury of thought.” — Landor.
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Penuriousness; miserliness.[Obs.]