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noun the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
noun less than adequate
noun the quality of being meager; -George Eliot
originFrom Middle English poornes, porenes, porenesse, pornes, pornesse, povernesse, powrenesse; equivalent to poor + -ness.
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