Noah Webster
Websters Dictionary 1828
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Penury
PEN'URY, noun [Latin penuria, from Gr. needy.]
Want of property; indigence; extreme poverty.
All innocent they were exposed to hardship and penury
First Occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Proverbs 14:23