OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 16514

penury

/ˈpɛnjʊɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pauperismo • pobreza • pobrisimo
Extreme need or want; destitution, poverty; (countable) an instance of this.
In all labour there is profit: but the talke of the lippes tendeth onely to penury.
[N]ow God comes to thee, […] as the sun in noon, to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his…
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