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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, deprivation, destitution, empty purse, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, lack, mendicancy, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, pauperization, pinch, poorness, privation, want
Dictionary Results for penury:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
penury
    n 1: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
         appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
         homeless" [syn: indigence, need, penury, pauperism,
         pauperization]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Penury \Pen"u*ry\, n. [L. penuria; cf. Gr. ? hunger, ? poverty,
   need, ? one who works for his daily bread, a poor man, ? to
   work for one's daily bread, to be poor: cf. F. p['e]nurie.]
   1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme
      poverty; destitution. "A penury of military forces."
      --Bacon.
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            They were exposed to hardship and penury. --Sprat.
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            It arises in neither from penury of thought.
                                                  --Landor.
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   2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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