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Definition of Destitute

1. Adjective. Poor enough to need help from others.

2. Adjective. Completely wanting or lacking. "The sentence was devoid of meaning"

Definition of Destitute

1. a. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of.

2. v. t. To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon.

Definition of Destitute

1. Adjective. Lacking something; devoid; especially lacking money; poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Destitute

1. [v -TUTED, -TUTING, -TUTES]

Medical Definition of Destitute

1. 1. To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. "To forsake or destitute a plantation." (Bacon) 2. To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; followed by of. "Destituted of all honor and livings." (Holinshed) 3. To disappoint. "When his expectation is destituted." (Fotherby) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Destitute

destinate destinating destination destinationless destinations destine destined destines destinies destining

destinist destinists destiny destinyless destituent destitute (current term) destitute of(p) destituted destitutely destituteness

destitutenesses destitutes destituting destitution destitutions destock destocking destratification destratifications destratificator

Literary usage of Destitute

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"An individual may be destitute of nationality Nation- knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally or through no fault of his own. Even by birth a person may be ..."

2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1900)
"The home and the institution for the care of destitute and neglected children,— both ideals have their merits and their defects, and each should be made to ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It acts with the co-operation between the committing authorities and the institutions housing orphans and other destitute children ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"To the help of these hopeful but destitute settlers came the organized ... Some regions wert oversupplied, while others were left entirely destitute. ..."

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