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n. poverty, indigence; stinginess, miserliness | ||||
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Penury Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Penury
(n.)
Penuriousness; miserliness.
(n.)
Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
(n.)
Penuriousness; miserliness.
(n.)
Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
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penury
Noun
1. a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
(synonym) indigence, need, beggary, pauperism, pauperization
(hypernym) poverty, poorness, impoverishment
Noun
1. a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
(synonym) indigence, need, beggary, pauperism, pauperization
(hypernym) poverty, poorness, impoverishment
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penury
INDIGNCE,PAUPERISM
EG:The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.(SHAKESPEARE)
EG:In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.(J.M.SYNGE)
INDIGNCE,PAUPERISM
EG:The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.(SHAKESPEARE)
EG:In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.(J.M.SYNGE)
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penury
penury
people \peo"ple\ (?), n. [oe. peple, people, of. pueple, f. peuple, fr. l. populus. cf. populage, public, pueblo.]
1. the body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. unto him shall the gathering of the people be. xlix. 10. the ants are a people not strong. xxx. 25. before many peoples, and nations, and tongues. x. 11. earth's monarchs are her peoples. --whitter. a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. parker.
note: peopleis a collective noun, generally construed with a plural verb, and only occasionally used in the plural form (peoples), in the sense of nations or races.
2. persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in french, and man in german; as, people in adversity. people were tempted to lend by great premiums. people have lived twenty-four days upon nothing but water.
3. the mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people. and strive to gain his pardon from the people.
4. with a possessive pronoun: (a) one's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were english. (b) one's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers. "you slew great number of his people."
penury
people \peo"ple\ (?), n. [oe. peple, people, of. pueple, f. peuple, fr. l. populus. cf. populage, public, pueblo.]
1. the body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. unto him shall the gathering of the people be. xlix. 10. the ants are a people not strong. xxx. 25. before many peoples, and nations, and tongues. x. 11. earth's monarchs are her peoples. --whitter. a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. parker.
note: peopleis a collective noun, generally construed with a plural verb, and only occasionally used in the plural form (peoples), in the sense of nations or races.
2. persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in french, and man in german; as, people in adversity. people were tempted to lend by great premiums. people have lived twenty-four days upon nothing but water.
3. the mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people. and strive to gain his pardon from the people.
4. with a possessive pronoun: (a) one's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were english. (b) one's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers. "you slew great number of his people."
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Penury Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Penury Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Poverty
Poverty is being without things, having little money, not many material possessions and in need of essential goods.
Poverty is understood in many senses. The main understandings of the term include:
- Descriptions of material need, typically including the necessities of daily living (food, clothing, shelter, and health care). Poverty in this sense may be understood as a condition in which a person or community is deprived of, and or lacks the essentials for a minimum standard of well-being and life. These essentials may be material resources such as food, safe drinking water, and shelter, or they may be social resources such as access to information, education, health care, social status, political power, or the opportunity to develop meaningful connections with other people in society.
- Descriptions of social relationships and need, including social exclusion , dependency , and the ability to participate in society. This would include education and information.
- Describing a (persistent) lack of income and wealth. The World Bank, for example, uses a global indicator of incomes of $1 or $2 a day. In relative terms disparities in income or wealth income disparities are seen as an indicator of poverty and the condition of poverty is linked to questions of scarcity and distribution of resources and power.
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