Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Penury
penury, n. [L. pēnūria, want, need.]
- Deprivation; poverty; nothingness; emptiness; [fig.] nightfall; darkness; death.
- Absence; lack; being out of reach.
- [Fig.] humble pleasures; simple domestic tasks.
- [Fig.] humility; poorness in spirit.
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