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penury
English
Etymology
From Latin p?n?ria (“want”), related to paene (“scarcely”, adverb), c. 1400. Compare French pénurie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?nj??i/, /?p?nj??i/
Noun
penury (usually uncountable, plural penuries)
- Extreme want; poverty; destitution.
- A lack of something; a dearth.
- Synonyms: barrenness, insufficiency
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XI:
- No! penury, inertness and grimace, / In some strange sort, were the land's portion. […]
Derived terms
- penurious
Translations
Further reading
- “penury”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “penury”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- pruney
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