Definitionn. a state of extreme poverty or destitution
Last update: November 4, 2016
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I was brought up in penury in my childhood. [verb]
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The once mighty tyrant of Rimini found himself reduced to penury with a state chiefly composed of a single town. [noun]
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Catherine was forced to live in near penury with a frugal allowance from her father-in-law. [noun]
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The features seemed to be extenuated by penury and famine, until they hardly retained the likeness of a human aspect. [noun]
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Thenceforward, partly from prudence and partly from penury, Vergerines cared only for the maintenance of peacea not too easy task, in opposition to the greed of Catherine II. [Please select]
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"When I was sixteen I learned what penury meant in London." [Please select]
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This explains the extreme penury of history outside the dry descriptions of the nomenclator. [Please select]
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He was reduced many times to the very last extreme of penury. [Please select]
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10, 1483, the son of a poor peasant, his childhood was spent in penury. [Please select]
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She will suffer cruelty, penury, insults, before she behaves so shamefully, so perfidiously. [Please select]
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