Associations to the word «Penury»

Wiktionary

PENURY, noun. Extreme want; poverty; destitution.
PENURY, noun. A lack of something; a dearth; barrenness; insufficiency.

Dictionary definition

PENURY, noun. A state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin