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1. n. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. Source: opted
2. n. Penuriousness; miserliness. Source: opted
3. n. a state of extreme poverty or destitution Source: wordnet
4. 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
5. n:100 n a state of extreme poverty or destitution Source: ecdict

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