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in·di·gence

[in-di-juhns]
noun
seriously impoverished condition; poverty.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English < Latin indigentia need. See indigent, -ence

indigence, indigents.


privation, need, want, penury.


wealth.

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Example Sentences
  • He is ever a handful of pocket change away from utter indigence.
  • The coastal counties have lots of people on indigence.
  • Nor are fees waived for indigence in the vast majority of cases.
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indigent (ˈɪndɪdʒənt)
 
adj
1.  so poor as to lack even necessities; very needy
2.  archaic (usually foll by of) lacking (in) or destitute (of)
 
n
3.  an impoverished person
 
[C14: from Latin indigēre to need, from egēre to lack]
 
'indigence
 
n
 
'indigently
 
adv

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indigence
late 14c., from O.Fr. indigence (13c.), from L. indigentia, from indigentem (nom. indigens), prp. of indigere "to need," from indu "in, within" + egere "be in need, want."
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