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Noun: destitution  ,des-ti't(y)oo-shun
  1. A state without friends, money or prospects
    "she laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter"

Derived forms: destitutions

Type of: immiseration, immiserisation [Brit], immiserization, impoverishment, poorness, poverty

Encyclopedia: Destitution

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