poverty
/ˈpɑːvɚti/ noun B1- The quality or state of being poor; lack of money · get into poverty· get out of poverty
- A deficiency of something needed or desired · poverty of soil· poverty of the blood
Plural poverties
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You are a generous man, Albert, but perhaps you may be blinded by pride or resentment; if you refuse me, if you ask another for what I have a right to offer you, I will say it is ungenerous of you to refuse the life of your mother at the hands of a man whose father was allowed by your father to die in all the horrors of poverty and despair.”
A COBBLER unable to make a living by his trade and made desperate by poverty, began to practice medicine in a town in which he was not known.
Better poverty without care, than riches with.
What a starved, unloved life she had had--a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne’s history and divine the truth.
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