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penury [ˈpenjʊərɪ, Am -jʊrɪ] N no pl form

penury

penury

бе́дность f

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In that famine even the nobles were reduced to penury. en.wikipedia.org

Nineteenth-century rag-and-bone men typically lived in penury, surviving on the proceeds of what they collected each day. en.wikipedia.org

He thereafter supported himself by teaching; not surprisingly, he died in penury. en.wikipedia.org

Abandoned by their families, they are doomed to a life of penury. en.wikipedia.org

He lost all his money and died in 1959 in penury. en.wikipedia.org

These twin qualities were tested heavily in his life by various circumstances that led him to penury and separation from his family. en.wikipedia.org

The family were left in penury and his sister later recollected how the siblings would hold each other and weep. en.wikipedia.org

He lived in penury in the last decades of his life, far removed from the success he had enjoyed in the 1950s and 60s. en.wikipedia.org

These groups existed at first in conditions of near penury, their members poorly armed and equipped as well as half starved. en.wikipedia.org

Residents use this as an excuse for their penury. en.wikipedia.org

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