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penury

C2 noun

penury /ˈpɛnjəɹi/ nghĩa là sự nghèo khổ cùng cực, cảnh bần cùng

Các nghĩa

  1. sự nghèo khổ cùng cực, cảnh bần cùng

    Extreme need or want; destitution, poverty; (countable) an instance of this.

    uncountable · usually

    [W]hat prodigall portion haue I ſpent, that I ſhould come to ſuch penury?

    In all labour there is profit: but the talke of the lippes tendeth onely to penury.

    Chill Penury repreſs'd their noble rage, / And froze the genial current of the ſoul.

  2. sự thiếu thốn, khan hiếm

    Often followed by of: a lack of something; a dearth, a scarcity.

    countable · poetic · usually

    VVith theſe and many others as conſiderable, vvhich partly vvillingly, and partly in the penury of Books, forgettingly I paſſe, […]

    No! penury, inertness and grimace, / In some strange sort, were the land's portion.

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