Penury : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Penury	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Penury
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
penury n a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" Synonym(s): indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Penury \Pen"ury\, n. [L. penuria; cf. Gr. [?] hunger, [?] poverty, need, [?] one who works for his daily bread, a poor man, [?] to work for one's daily bread, to be poor: cf. F. p[82]nurie.] 1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. [bd]A penury* of military forces.[b8] --Bacon. They were exposed to hardship and penury. --Sprat. It arises in neither from penury of thought. --Landor. 2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.