Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Destitute
destiny (destinies)destitution
destitute, adj. [L. dēstitūt-us, abandoned, forsaken, deserted.] (webplay: thing, will, who).
Impoverished; lonely; penniless; void; barren; friendless; comfortless; (see Psalms 141:8).
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