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61pauperism — n poverty, destitution, penury, indigence, impecuniousness, impecuniosity, pennilessness, neediness, reduced circumstances; beggary, mendicancy, mendicity, pauperage, pauperdom; insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation; distress, difficulties, straits …
62penury — n 1. poverty, extreme poverty, destitution, need, want; straits, straitened circumstances, beggary, pauperism, pauperage; mendicancy, mendicity; impecuniousness, insolvency, bankruptcy, inability to pay, liquidation, failure, default; privation,… …
63poverty — n 1. indigence, impoverishment, penury, impecuniousness, neediness, necessitousness; privation, destitution, pennilessness, hand to mouth existence; beggary, pauperism, mendicity; distress, difficulties, straits, narrow straits, straitened or… …
64privation — n deprivation, want, need, lack; loss, bereavement, hardship, distress, suffering; difficulty, predicament, plight, strait; seizure, confiscation, forfeiture, divestiture, disinheritance, dispossession; poverty, destitution, beggary, pauperism,… …
65ruin — n 1. devastation, desolation, ravagement, havoc, destruction; dilapidation, ruination, wreck, wreckage, wrack, wrack and ruin; disruption, upheaval; crash, collision, crack up. 2. overthrow, overturn, subversion, suppression, subdual, conquest;… …
66mendicant — n. beggar; a. begging. ♦ mendicity, ♦ mendicancy, n …
67mendicant — [men′di kənt] adj. [L mendicans (gen. mendicantis), prp. of mendicare, to beg < mendicus, needy: for base see MENDACIOUS] 1. asking for alms; begging 2. of or characteristic of a beggar 3. designating or of any of various religious orders… …
68indigence — noun a state of extreme poverty or destitution their indigence appalled him a general state of need exists among the homeless • Syn: ↑need, ↑penury, ↑pauperism, ↑pauperization • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
69mendicancy — noun 1. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) • Syn: ↑beggary, ↑begging • Derivationally related forms: ↑mendicant, ↑beg (for: ↑beggary) …
70mendicant — adj. & n. adj. 1 begging. 2 (of a friar) living solely on alms. n. 1 a beggar. 2 a mendicant friar. Derivatives: mendicancy n. mendicity n. Etymology: L mendicare beg f. mendicus beggar f. mendum fault …
