indigence

But there are many more people balancing precariously on the verge of indigence.

It must be a dreadful situation for any man to have to choose between roguery and indigence.

Their kings are without power and without glory; their subjects languish in indigence and wretchedness.

Banished from his native country and without any resource, Diogenes was reduced to great indigence.

And a life of simplicity and indigence, which moderates the sexual desires, now seems to me good.

Ordinary minds avoid, as much as possible, recurring to past periods of indigence and inferiority of station.