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adjective

Indigent adj.

Wanting; void; free; destitute; used with of. (Obs.)

Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous. "Indigent faint souls past corporal toil." "Charity consists in relieving the indigent."

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Etymology of 'Indigent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Indigent" Quotes from Famous Books

... society, and make fortune's larger gifts, or even its moderate blessings, criterions of disqualification for public trust and honours in Pennsylvania; and under a spacious description of men, offer with your sword to lead the indigent, the bankrupt, and the desperate, into all the authority of government. But in the shallowness of your understanding, you have mistaken the spirit of the times; it will not countenance or ...

— Nuts for Future Historians to Crack • Various

... Excellency and I ought to have expected when we placed her with the good Sisters of the Stigmata: although I wager that, fantastic and capricious as you are, you would be better pleased (hiding it carefully from that grave side of you which bestows devout little books and carbolic acid upon the indigent) that your protegee should be a witch than a serving-maid, a maker of philters rather than a knitter of ...

— Hauntings • Vernon Lee

... the mayor and aldermen of the city for the time being might have the order and disposition of the hospitals mentioned, and of all the lands, tenements and revenues appertaining to the same. If his grace would but grant this request the mayor promised that a great number of the indigent sick would be relieved, whilst "sturdy beggars" not willing ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe

... eminent citizen at the time of his first induction to this office, in his career of eight years the internal taxes have been repealed; sixty millions of the public debt have been discharged; provision has been made for the comfort and relief of the aged and indigent among the surviving warriors of the Revolution; the regular armed force has been reduced and its constitution revised and perfected; the accountability for the expenditure of public moneys has been ...

— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... their prisoner. He came upon them with some idea of mediation, but found them in the midst of their guilty terrors, while the rage, which had hurried them on to murder, began, with all but Hatteraick, to sink into remorse and fear. Glossin was then indigent and greatly in debt, but he was already possessed of Mr. Bertram's ear, and, aware of the facility of his disposition, he saw no difficulty in enriching himself at his expense, provided the heir-male were removed, in which case the estate became the ...

— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

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