1
To you, after a few months, they would mean absolute penury.
2
Mrs. Fyne did not know what it might mean to be suddenly reduced from riches to absolute penury.
3
Even now he is so crippled by the endless litigation he has had that he lives in absolute penury.
4
He was in absolute penury.
5
Among the sufferers were men of quality and once opulent citizens, who had been reduced in a moment to absolute penury.