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Penury

British pronunciation/pˈɛnjʊɹi/
American pronunciation/ˈpɛnjʊɹi/
Penury
[NOUN]
1

a state of extreme poverty or destitution

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1PAUL SOLMAN: Charlotte Lucas' lot wasn't the happiest, but better than penury, one imagines.
2Their money, Greene's slaving wealth, is what funded the rise of the son into the ranks of lawyerdom and then the peerage, and also what saved the Copley's from penury in his declining years.
3Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: for all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
4Prove quite so painful so hard to hear so much something We need to avoid that we'd rather die in Penury ignored and unfulfilled than ever hear it
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