Definition of Penry
Pen"u*ry (?), n. [L. penuria; cf.
Gr. &?; hunger, &?; poverty, need, &?; one who works for his daily
bread, a poor man, &?; to work for one's daily bread, to be poor: cf.
F. 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Extreme want or poverty; destitution.
- Extreme dearth; barrenness or insufficiency.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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