PENURIES
Noun
penuries
plural of penury
Anagrams
• Perusine, resupine
Source: Wiktionary
PENURY
Pen"u*ry, n. Etym: [L. penuria; cf. Gr. pénurie.]
1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. "A penury of military forces." Bacon. They were exposed to hardship and penury. Sprat. It arises in neither from penury of thought. Landor.
2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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