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Poorness

noun

The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. Synonyms: impoverishment, poverty.

Less than adequate.

The quality of being meager. Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness.

The quality of being poorly made or maintained.

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"Poorness" Quotes from Famous Books

... make myself a Robin Hood, a Wat Tyler [in the inadvertence of the moment he seems to have said 'a Tom Tailor,' by mistake], a Kett, or a Jack Cade! I was not so mad! I knew the state of Spain well, his weakness, his poorness, his humbleness at this time. I knew that six times we had repulsed his forces—thrice in Ireland, thrice at sea, once upon our coast and twice upon his own. Thrice had I served against him myself at sea—wherein, for my country's sake, I had expended of my own property forty ...

— Raleigh • Edmund Gosse

... infrequently meet the former. The longer we deal with "bad men,'' the more inclined are we to see the very summit of devilment as the result of need and friendlessness, weakness, foolishness, flightiness, and just simple, real, human poorness of spirit. Now, what we find so redistributed in the course of years, we often find crushed together and fallen apart in a short time. Today the prisoner seems to us the most dreadful criminal; in a few days, we have calmed down, have learned to know the case from another ...

— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden