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Meanings of penury in English

Portuguese
indigência
Catalan
misèria
Spanish
miseria

A state of extreme poverty or destitution.

indigência

Lack of the means of subsistence.

Usage of penury in English
1
And that was the truth; for their comfort had changed into penury.
In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales
2
They lived in penury for three years before returning to San Diego.
The Irish Times
3
I left the millions of Italy, and I find spoliation and penury.
The Companions of Jehu
4
He was reduced many times to the very last extreme of penury.
The Junior Classics, Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism
5
His penury coincided with the peak of his power, influence, and celebrity.
Empire of the Summer Moon
6
To have brought penury to his lady-love struck him to the heart.
The Motormaniacs
7
What would have satisfied the ancient would seem to us like penury.
The Unseen World, and Other Essays
8
Never was penury of knowledge and vulgarity of sentiment so happily disguised.
Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
9
Never were penury of knowledge and vulgarity of sentiment so happily disguised.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 08 / ...
10
Our Universities are impoverished of learning, by the penury of their provisions.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
11
A few years of an old man's life hi penury and obscurity.
Casanova's Homecoming
12
The rest of his life was a blur of penury and dissolution.
The new yorker
13
And that rivalry drove all other merchant houses in Altaruk into penury.
The broken blade
14
All need relief from the penury that fuels domestic violence and sometimes prostitution.
Reuters
15
The years of his youth are lost; his father has died in penury.
The Guardian
16
That means not forcing employees to choose between penury and working while coughing.
News.com.au
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