PENURY

penury. Penury, n. poverty, indigence, great want

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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. 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. 2. Penuriousness; miserliness. Jer. Taylor.