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indigent

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in·di·gent  (nd-jnt)
adj.
1. Experiencing want or need; impoverished. See Synonyms at poor.
2. Archaic Lacking or deficient.
n.
A needy or destitute person.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin indigns, indigent-, present participle of indigre, to need : indu-, in; see en in Indo-European roots + egre, to lack.]

indi·gent·ly adv.

indigent
Adjective
Formal so poor as to lack even necessities: the indigent widow of a fellow writer [Latin indigere to need]
indigence n
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Adj.1.indigent - poor enough to need help from others
poor - having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"

indigent
adjective (Formal) destitute, poor, impoverished, needy, penniless, poverty-stricken, down and out, in want, down at heel (informal) impecunious, dirt-poor, straitened, on the breadline, short, flat broke (informal) penurious, necessitous << OPPOSITE wealthy

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She may probably have already told you that being left by her Parents in indigent Circumstances she had retired into Wales on eoconomical motives.
Moreover, as an oligarchy is said to be a government of men of family, fortune, and education; so, on the contrary, a democracy is a government in the hands of men of no birth, indigent circumstances, and mechanical employments.
But all here were free from such impertinence, not only those whose company is in all other places esteemed a favour from their equality of fortune, but even those whose indigent circumstances make such an eleemosynary abode convenient to them, and who are therefore less welcome to a great man's table because they stand in need of it.
 
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