A state of extreme poverty or destitution.
Lack of the means of subsistence.
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.
6 To have brought penury to his lady-love struck him to the heart.
7 What would have satisfied the ancient would seem to us like penury .
8 Never was penury of knowledge and vulgarity of sentiment so happily disguised.
9 Never were penury of knowledge and vulgarity of sentiment so happily disguised.
10 Our Universities are impoverished of learning, by the penury of their provisions.
11 A few years of an old man's life hi penury and obscurity.
12 The rest of his life was a blur of penury and dissolution.
13 And that rivalry drove all other merchant houses in Altaruk into penury .
14 All need relief from the penury that fuels domestic violence and sometimes prostitution.
15 The years of his youth are lost; his father has died in penury .
16 That means not forcing employees to choose between penury and working while coughing.
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