Destitution
[,destɪ'tʃuːʃn;,destɪ'tjuːʃn]
Definition
(n.) The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Indigence, want, need, poverty, penury, privation.
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Examples
- I traced his progress downwards, step by step, until at last he reached that excess of destitution from which he never rose again. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Might he ask, was dying of destitution and neglect necessarily English? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Female benevolence and female destitution could do nothing without him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There was no market for his wares, and after months of actual destitution he pawned the model of his sewing-machine and even his patent papers in order to secure funds to pay his passage home. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Loverless and inexpectant of love, I was as safe from spies in my heart-poverty, as the beggar from thieves in his destitution of purse. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She had a sense of deeper empoverishment--of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The pupil's father--once a rich banker--had failed, died, and left behind him only debts and destitution. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I could hardly tell how men and women in extremities of destitution proceeded. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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