All 3 Uses
destitute
in
Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline
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- But I wonder how things might have been different if my father was part of a family business that gave him structure and a steady paycheck instead of working in a bar, the worst place for a man like him—or if my mother had been surrounded by women, sisters and nieces, perhaps, who could have provided relief from destitution and loneliness, a refuge from strangers.†
p. 32.9destitution = extreme poverty
- You have the chance to save a child from destitution, poverty, and I believe Mrs. Scatcherd would agree that it is not too great an exaggeration to add sin and depravity.†
p. 64.4 *
- The son discovered that Carmine's birth mother, a new arrival from Italy, died in childbirth, and his destitute father gave him up.†
p. 266.3destitute = extremely poor; or lacking the necessities of life such as food and shelter
Definitions:
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(1)
(destitute) extremely poor; or lacking the necessities of life such as food and shelter
The expression "destitute of" means: lacking - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)