Meanings of great destitution in English

All agreed that wherever they were, they must be in great destitution.

Thus sadly a prospect of great destitution opened before my mother.

We are deeply impressed with the great destitution of these people as regards intellectual, moral and spiritual things.

At the dinner-table be remarked: I have heard to-day that the Lumley family are in great destitution, as usual.

The royal hospital and that for the Indians are both in great destitution, and should be aided by royal bounty.

Suffering from shipwreck and great destitution, it was necessary for him to economize, as much as possible, in his expenditures.

But he was a confirmed gambler, and left his family in great destitution, from which the famous artificial soprano, Farinelli, rescued them.

There will be great destitution and suffering in the village with every mill closed; and they are all going to close, Bridget says.

She was in a state of great destitution, for Charles's circumstances were now so reduced that he could afford her very little aid.

Tis a great destitution to both that this should not be entertained with large leisures, but, contrariwise, should be balked by importunate affairs.

The Mormons, as a body, arrived in Illinois in the early part of the year 1839, in a state of great destitution and wretchedness.

He gave occasionally to individual mendicants, or relieved a case of great destitution at his very door; but his alms-giving was neither profuse nor systematic.

He is in the greatest destitution, forsaken as it were by the roadside, after all his years of labour.