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penury
Extreme need or want; destitution, poverty; an instance of this.
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In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
(now chiefly poetic) A lack of something; a dearth, a scarcity.
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No! penury, inertness and grimace, / In some strange sort, were the land's portion. […]
(obsolete) The quality of being miserly; miserliness, parsimoniousness, stinginess.
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