Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
poverty .
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Examples
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And whan he felle in poverte, he was 78 zeer of age.
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And whan he felle in poverte, he was 78 zeer of age.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Was no pride on his apparaille · ne poverte neither;
English Satires Various 1885
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"I am in grete hevynesse and poverte, for I have lost all that I had, and by this stone I shal recovere all ayen, whether hit be so or no, God wote!"
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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And whan he felle in poverte, he was 78 zeer of age.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Agayns God it is, whan a man gruccheth agayn the peynes of helle, or agayns poverte, or los of catel or agayn reyn or tempest; or elles gruccheth that shrewes han prosperitee, or elles for that goode men han adversitee. "
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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