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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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  1. n. The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence.
  2. n. a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  3. The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. Cowper. Syn. -- Poverty; penury; destitution; want; need; privation; lack. See Poverty.
  4. The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means ofcomfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence.Cowper.
  5. n:100 n. a state of extreme poverty or destitution