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Meanings of indigence in English
Synonyms
Examples for "need"
Examples for "need"
1
Of course, people need housing, they need food, they need good education.
2
Conclusions: Fathers and mothers often report problems and frequently need professional support.
3
Public health agencies need a better long-term solution for prevention: a vaccine.
4
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5
Europe will need a different strategy to cope with Spain and Italy.
1
And that was the truth; for their comfort had changed into penury.
2
They lived in penury for three years before returning to San Diego.
3
I left the millions of Italy, and I find spoliation and penury.
4
He was reduced many times to the very last extreme of penury.
5
His penury coincided with the peak of his power, influence, and celebrity.
1
The southern Italians, who are the most illiterate, produce the most pauperism.
2
Giving to such persons encourages pauperism and fraud instead of curing it.
3
Feeble-mindedness in one generation becomes pauperism or insanity in the next.
4
The improvement exhibited in figures of pauperism is entirely confined to outdoor relief.
5
This ought to correct some ideas as to where the pauperism comes from.
1
The pauperization of labor depends on the monopoly of land combined with the monopoly of machinery.
2
That is pauperization nowadays.
Usage of indigence in English
1
I am lost in indigence; do confer on me Thy greatest favor.
2
Families who had lived in opulence found themselves suddenly reduced to indigence.
3
Our relations; who enjoyed all our property, had reduced us to indigence.
4
The greatest misfortune has befallen Egypt: its rulers are threatened with indigence.
5
The conditions referred to are affluence and indigence, as explained by Nilakantha.
6
Then glancing around the room, he saw everywhere age, decay, and indigence.
7
And especially what indigence will there be of that which is subordinate?
8
Remote from her friends; in a hovel; the abode of indigence and misery.
9
Perhaps indigence exercises a peculiar and equal effect upon the handwriting.
10
The house exhibited the most offensive appearance of filth and indigence.
11
A life of escapes and indigence could supply poetry with no splendid images.
12
Wealth formation and profit seeking are motivated by indigence, both absolute and relative.
13
His whole property was confiscated, and he was reduced to indigence and contempt.
14
You are better at home, under no compulsion to act dishonorably from indigence.
15
Erik Satie lived the entire later half of his life in extreme indigence.
16
Man's history is not one of affluence, but one of indigence.
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Portuguese
Indigence through the time
Indigence across language varieties
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