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- PENURY Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The exact meaning of "penury" (from Latin penuria, meaning "want") can vary a bit from context to context It sometimes has had a broad sense of "lack" or "scarcity," as when one character remarks on another's "penury of conversation" in Jane Austen's Emma
- PENURY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Detailed case studies of clowns reveal the penury of the majority of performers, their physical and comic skills, and the social comment inherent in their performances
- PENURY Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Penury definition: extreme poverty; destitution See examples of PENURY used in a sentence
- Penury - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
Penury means extreme poverty to the point of homelessness and begging in the streets Economic downturns, job loss, shopping sprees, and weekends at the high rollers' table in Vegas can lead to penury
- penury noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of penury noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- PENURY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
2 meanings: 1 extreme poverty 2 extreme scarcity Click for more definitions
- penury, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun penury, one of which is labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
- penury - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
penury (usually uncountable, plural penuries) (uncountable) Extreme need or want; destitution, poverty; (countable) an instance of this quotations
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