pennilessness


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pen·ni·less

 (pĕn′ē-lĭs, pĕn′ə-)
adj.
1. Entirely without money.
2. Very poor.
pen′ni·less·ly adv.
pen′ni·less·ness n.
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Noun1.pennilessness - a state of lacking money
impecuniousness, penuriousness
impoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
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pennilessness

noun
The condition of being extremely poor:
beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, penuriousness, penury, poverty, privation, want.
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He said he had been thinking of a shop himself; though it had presented itself to his pennilessness as a small place in which Eliza should sell tobacco at one counter whilst he sold newspapers at the opposite one.
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