Poverty

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 80

pov′ėr-ti, n. the state of being poor: nece ity: want: meanne : defect.— adjs. Pov′erty-strick′en , Pov′erty-struck , reduced to a state of poverty: in great suffering from poverty. [O. Fr. poverte (Fr. pauvreté )—L. paupertas , -tat is — pauper , poor.]