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indigence

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in·di·gence  (nd-jns)
n.
Poverty; neediness.
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Noun1.indigence - a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
pauperism, pauperization, penury, need
impoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
mendicancy, mendicity, beggary - the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy"
Translations
indigence [ˈɪndɪdʒəns] N → indigencia f
indigence
n → Bedürftigkeit f, → Armut f


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In spite of the improvements and additions which were making to the Norland estate, and in spite of its owner having once been within some thousand pounds of being obliged to sell out at a loss, nothing gave any symptom of that indigence which he had tried to infer from it;-- no poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared-- but there, the deficiency was considerable.
Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context
I find a source of delicious sympathy in these faithful pictures of a monotonous homely existence, which has been the fate of so many more among my fellow-mortals than a life of pomp or of absolute indigence, of tragic suffering or of world-stirring actions.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
The luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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