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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Indigence

· In·di·gence · IPA /ˈɪndɪd͡ʒəns/
01 n. The condition of being indigent; lack of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless indigence.
  1. 1.
    The condition of being indigent; lack of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless indigence.
Syn. Poverty; penury; destitution; want; need; privation; lack. See Poverty.