indigence
Usage
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Indigence denotes a severely impoverished condition marked by hardship and the lack of any of life’s comforts: reduced to a life of indigence. Destitution, a somewhat literary word, implies a state of having absolutely none of the necessities of life: widespread destitution in countries at war. Poverty denotes serious lack of the means for proper existence: living in a state of extreme poverty.
Example Sentences
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Poverty, or according to the definition of writers on Police, Indigence may be said to be the nurse of almost all crimes.
From A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies by Hoyland, John
And so, according to Colquhoun, Treatise on Indigence, 1806, the English agricultural laborers received, on an average, £31 per annum, and manufacturing workmen, £55.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm
When the infantine Peasantry ran, And roll'd on the daisy-deck'd Green: Ah! sure 'twas fell Envy's despite, Lest Indigence tasted of Bliss, That sternly decreed they've no right To innocent pleasure like this.
From An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects by Bloomfield, Nathaniel
Indigence and indulgence are the two extremes of wretchedness.
From As a Man Thinketh by Allen, James
Indigence and dishonour were the evils to shun which thy integrity and peace of mind have been lightly forfeited.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden
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