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adjective

Destitute adj.

Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; often followed by of. "In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute." "Totally destitute of all shadow of influence."

Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor. "They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented."

verb

Destitute v. t.

To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. (Obs.) "To forsake or destitute a plantation."

To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; followed by of. (Obs.) "Destituted of all honor and livings."

To disappoint. (Obs.) "When his expectation is destituted."

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Etymology of 'Destitute'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Destitute" Quotes from Famous Books

... a place called Hunsdon, and was put under the charge of a governess whose name was Lady Bryan. There is an ancient letter from Lady Bryan, still extant, which was written to one of the king's officers about Elizabeth, explaining her destitute condition, and asking for a more suitable supply for her wants. It may entertain the reader to see this relic, which not only illustrates our little heroine's condition, but also shows how great the changes are which our language has undergone within the last three hundred years. The letter, as ...

— Queen Elizabeth - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... had a financial stake at least to the extent of bringing "out of England at my chardge 25 men this year [1619] to furnish Smyth hundred...." Yeardley wrote on April 29, 1619, that the plantation was "alltogether destitute of cowes." He asked that more be sent and that authority be sought to purchase as they were available. He hoped to get in the Colony "as many as will sett up 3 ploughs at Smythes Hundred, for we have there ...

— The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 • Charles E. Hatch

... nonsense. You know I mean the very poor, the destitute. But let us go up-stairs and have a cup ...

— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne

... to the word of God (2 Cor. vi. 14-18). In temporal things the children of God need, whilst they remain here on earth, to make use of the world; but when the work to be done requires, that those who attend to it should be possessed of spiritual life (of which unbelievers are utterly destitute), the children of God are bound, by their loyalty to their Lord, entirely to refrain from association with the unregenerate. But alas! The connexion with the world is but too marked in these religious societies; for every one ...

— A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Mueller - Written by Himself, First Part • George Mueller

... Province in 1830 could not be otherwise than pre- eminently satisfactory to its inhabitants. That a people who had been driven from their homes, in most cases destitute of the common needs of ordinary life, should have come into a vast wilderness, and, in the course of forty-six years, have founded a country, and placed themselves in circumstances of comfort and independence, seems to me to be one of the ...

— Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago • Canniff Haight

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