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Definition of Destitution
1. Noun. A state without friends or money or prospects.
Definition of Destitution
1. n. The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.
Definition of Destitution
1. Noun. (obsolete) The action of deserting or abandoning. ¹
2. Noun. (rare) Discharge from office; dismissal. ¹
3. Noun. The condition of lacking something. ¹
4. Noun. An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Destitution
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Destitution
Literary usage of Destitution
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1847)
"HIGHLAND destitution. THE appalling horrors with which the Irish famine of last
... Besides, the destitution is not yet over. And it ¡s at least clear, ..."
2. The Practice of Poor Removals: As Regulated by the Recent Statutes, 9 & 10 by Edward William Cox (1849)
"destitution.—It seems proper to observe, that this Wno MAV B" clause does not
appear to prevent the removal where B""<TEP- there is destitution ..."
3. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1906)
"Much destitution also exists among the families of the late rebels, ... The general
destitution has rendered many kindly disposed people unable to do ..."
4. Paradise Lost by John Milton, Egerton Brydges (1851)
"... in age, And destitution ;—in a foreign elime, I hare gone through my work of
... destitution ..."
5. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1878)
"Hitherto we have, in our consideration of middle class destitution, assumed the
majority of its subjects to be at least endeavouring to escape from its ..."
6. An Introduction to the Industrial History of England by Abbott Payson Usher (1920)
"V. THE RELIEF OF destitution Provision for the relief of destitution was part of
the comprehensive legislative schemes of the Elizabethan period. ..."
7. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... against utter destitution. He could not get from Mexico or Maza- tlan a cent
of the money that had been promised; and the custom-house receipts, ..."
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