0 the condition of being extremely poor:
There is a disappointing poverty of creativity in their work.
Helping to alleviate poverty in developing countries also helps to reduce environmental destruction.
He emigrated to Australia to escape the grinding (= very great) poverty of his birthplace.
Two million people in the city live in abject (= very great) poverty.
1 the condition of being poor:
He grew up in poverty.
We should all do our best to lessen poverty and suffering and make the world a more equal place.
Poverty was the main reason why children were boarded out, frequently associated with loss of parents and difficulties in providing for a large household.
The foundlings may therefore have come from parishes containing wealthy individuals, but also a large degree of poverty and indigence.
According to this interpretation, the aged ordinarily resided with their adult children only out of necessity, especially in cases of poverty or infirmity.
In other words, as the report of the survey suggests, the best way to prevent poverty was to allow paupers to form families.
Secondly, they actively carried out and published social surveys of urban poverty.
The overseers (homen iin) measured the degree of poverty in almost the same way.
The second issue concerns poverty and other social problems, as well as efforts to deal with those problems.
