Category:Penury

Pen"u*ry, n. Etym: [l. penuria; cf. Gr. pénurie.]

1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; Destitution. "a penury of military forces." Bacon. They were exposed to hardship and penury. Sprat. It arises in neither from penury of thought. Landor.

2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [obs.] Jer. Taylor.