Noun:

निराश्रितता, बेकसी, निराश्रयता, अभाव,

destitution's Usage Examples:

condemned to live in destitution and pain.

With such vast multitudes to relieve, it proved impracticable to exact the labor which was required as a test of destitution.

The people came to subsist almost entirely on potatoes and herrings; and in 1846, when the potato blight began its ravages, nearly universal destitution ensued - embracing, over the islands generally, 70% of the inhabitants.

In the former, however, they were successful, and the destitution they left in their wake almost wrecked Napoleon's subsequent combinations.

In such a state of despair and destitution there is no hope for spiritualism, save in God; and Clauberg, Geulincx and Malebranche all take refuge under the shadow of his wings to escape the tyranny of extended matter.

Believing implicitly in the rumours of a descent on Boulogne and of risings in France which also reached him, and knowing the destitution he had left behind him in his movement to Ulm, when he heard of the westward march of French columns from the Lech he told his army, apparently in all good faith, that the French were in full march for their own coun try.

Destitution on the frontiers led the Triennial Convention to engage extensively in home mission work (1817 onward), and in 1832 the American Baptist Home Mission Society was constituted for the promotion of this work.

He was imposed upon by speculators in whom he placed confidence, and was reduced to destitution by the failure of a scheme in which they engaged him.

Despite a huge emigration of Jews from Russia, the congestion within the pale is the cause of terrible destitution and misery.

Despite this destitution, the soldiers and officers went on living just as usual.

Synonyms:

poverty, poorness, impoverishment,

Antonyms:

fruitfulness, sufficiency, adequacy, wealth,