[n] - a state of extreme poverty or destitution
• (n.) The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence.
In'di·gence noun [ Latin indigentia : confer French indigence . See Indigent .] The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless indigence . Cowper. Syn. -- Poverty; penury; destitution; want;...
a state of extreme poverty or destitution
poverty; state of being needy
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