All 5 Uses of
destitute
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Finally, she left the house and ran away from Fyodor Pavlovitch with a destitute divinity student, leaving Mitya, a child of three years old, in her husband's hands.†
Chpt 1
- And now he has sunk into terrible destitution, with his family—an unhappy family of sick children, and, I believe, an insane wife.†
Chpt 4 *
- It was said, however, that though Grushenka had been raised from destitution by the old man, Samsonov, she came of a respectable family belonging to the clerical class, that she was the daughter of a deacon or something of the sort.†
Chpt 7
- And so the destitute wanderer had stayed with her ever since.†
Chpt 11
- She found the two Poles in great poverty, almost destitution, without food or fuel, without cigarettes, in debt to their landlady.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(destitute) extremely poor; or lacking the necessities of life such as food and shelter
The expression "destitute of" means: lacking