Bible Dictionaries
Penury

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Penuriousness; miserliness.

(2):

(n.) Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Penury'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/penury.html. 1828.