"penurie" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "penury"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1597, Hen[ry] Arth[ington], Prouision for the Poore, Now in Penurie. Out of the Store-House of Gods Plentie: […], London: […] Thomas Creede",
          "text": "To redreſſe which default (the poore in all places beeing in penurie) I haue vndertaken to be their Solicitour, vnto all manner of perſons, which ought in equitie either to ſupply them, or to prouide that ſuch as make default (being well able) may bee compelled thereunto by further authoritie front the Almightie, if this gentle motion in the words precedent will not preuaile, which heere I will repeate and explane vnto them, (by Gods aſſiſtance)",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1643, John Swan, Speculum Mundi. Or A Glasse Representing the Face of the World; […], 2nd edition, […] Roger Daniel […], page 312",
          "text": "All which may be ſeen more largely proved in Lydiats Prælectio Astronomica: where having diſcourſed of the matter of the heavens and ſtarres, as alſo of the portions and tranſmutation of the elements, he proveth that there is ſuch a penurie of water here below, that it cannot be ſupplied (ad mundi, non dicit æternitatẽ, ſed diuturnitatẽ, propter inæquales elementorum tranſmutationes) not ſupplied without the conſumption of of the aire, were not the waters divided.",
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        "Obsolete form of penury."
      ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1597, Hen[ry] Arth[ington], Prouision for the Poore, Now in Penurie. Out of the Store-House of Gods Plentie: […], London: […] Thomas Creede",
          "text": "To redreſſe which default (the poore in all places beeing in penurie) I haue vndertaken to be their Solicitour, vnto all manner of perſons, which ought in equitie either to ſupply them, or to prouide that ſuch as make default (being well able) may bee compelled thereunto by further authoritie front the Almightie, if this gentle motion in the words precedent will not preuaile, which heere I will repeate and explane vnto them, (by Gods aſſiſtance)",
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        },
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          "ref": "1643, John Swan, Speculum Mundi. Or A Glasse Representing the Face of the World; […], 2nd edition, […] Roger Daniel […], page 312",
          "text": "All which may be ſeen more largely proved in Lydiats Prælectio Astronomica: where having diſcourſed of the matter of the heavens and ſtarres, as alſo of the portions and tranſmutation of the elements, he proveth that there is ſuch a penurie of water here below, that it cannot be ſupplied (ad mundi, non dicit æternitatẽ, ſed diuturnitatẽ, propter inæquales elementorum tranſmutationes) not ſupplied without the conſumption of of the aire, were not the waters divided.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Obsolete form of penury."
      ],
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