Another word for poorness

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poorness

want, need, destitution; see poverty 1, starvation.

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Where the malnutrition is the effect of poorness in the quality of the blood, the results are of course more widespread.
In spite, however, of all mitigations the Franciscans have nearly always presented to the world an object lesson in evangelical poverty by the poorness and simplicity of their lives and surroundings.
The Spanish Roman and the Visigoth, so-called, of that epoch of poorness of spirit, accustomed as he was to compound with one master after another, saw nothing dishonourable in making such an arrangement.

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