indigence
Usage
What are other ways to say indigence?
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
There is a certain Waste and Carelessness in the Air of every thing, and the whole appears but a covered Indigence, a magnificent Poverty.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
Still had Labour been blest with Content, Still Competence happy had been, Nor Indigence utter'd a plaint, Had Avarice spar'd but the Green.
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
Which speaks the soul awake to every charm That Nature open'd from thy humble cot: Speaks powers chill Indigence could not disarm; Proof to Humanity's severest lot.
From The Farmer's Boy A Rural Poem by Bloomfield, Robert
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