Penury: alternatives and connections

The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.

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The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.

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The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.

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The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.

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The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).

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The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

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The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence.

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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.

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The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

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