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Definition of Poverty-stricken
1. Adjective. Poor enough to need help from others.
Similar to: Poor
Derivative terms: Indigence, Necessity, Need, Neediness
Definition of Poverty-stricken
1. Adjective. Very poor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poverty-stricken
Literary usage of Poverty-stricken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"1866 another extremely poverty-stricken Jewish catacomb, dug in a clay soil, was
excavated in the Vigna Cimarra, on the Appian Way. ..."
2. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"... of Judge Chase and Commodore Barney are poverty- stricken upon the soil which
owes its freedom and fertility, in part, to their heroic patriotism. ..."
3. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"... of Judge Chase and Commodore Barney are poverty- stricken upon the soil which
owes its freedom and fertility, in part, to their heroic patriotism. ..."
4. Life in the forests of the Far East by Spenser St. John (1862)
"... Peace "—poverty-stricken Gentlemen—Possessions of the Nobles The Country
parcelled out among them—Distant Dependencies becoming independent—Oppression ..."
5. European Reminiscences, Musical and Otherwise: Being the Recollections of by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"... poverty-stricken SLUMS A RIOT IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE LIFE IN THE ENGLISH METROPOLIS.
After the events described in the last chapter, I started for Belgium, ..."
6. Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities: Embracing New York by James William Buel (1883)
"CHAPTER SUMPTUOUS CHURCH OFFICERS AND poverty-stricken MEMBERS. THE Mormon Church
is sustained by a vast missionary and commercial system. ..."
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