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    [Noun]  | "pen*u*ry" | \ ˈpen-yə-rē \


    1: a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money); especially : severe poverty

    2: extreme and often stingy frugality


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English, from Latin penuria, paenuria want; perhaps akin to Latin paene almost;

    [Noun]  | "penury" 


    1: the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions;


      * e.g., " ... lived in a time when single women like herself faced a lifetime of genteel penury "





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