penury

noun

Extreme want; poverty; destitution. / (now chiefly poetic) A lack of something; a dearth.

Despite his penury, he always managed to find joy in the simple things in life.

意味（1）

Extreme want; poverty; destitution.

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

意味（2）

(now chiefly poetic) A lack of something; a dearth.

No! penury, inertness and grimace, / In some strange sort, were the land's portion. […]