Both Uses of
penury
in
Frankenstein
- During one of their walks a poor cot in the foldings of a vale attracted their notice as being singularly disconsolate, while the number of half-clothed children gathered about it spoke of penury in its worst shape.†
Chpt 1
- It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury.
Chpt 19 *penury = a state of extreme poverty or destitution
Definition:
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(penury) a state of extreme poverty or destitution