Indigence

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  • noun. The state of being poor; poverty.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The condition of being indigent; insufficiency of means of subsistence; poverty; penury.
  • noun. Synonyms Penury, Want, etc. See poverty.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The condition of being indigent; lack of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. extreme poverty or destitution
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  • Word Usage
    "The Imperial pontiff inculcates, in the most persuasive language, the duties of benevolence and hospitality; exhorts his inferior clergy to recommend the universal practice of those virtues; promises to assist their indigence from the public treasury; and declares his resolution of establishing hospitals in every city, where the poor should be received without any invidious distinction of country or of religion."
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    affluence  
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