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indigencynoun
Indigence.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Indigence, Indigencynoun
Want; penury; poverty.
Etymology: indigence, Fr. indigentia, Lat.
Where there is happiness, there must not be indigency, or want of any due comforts of life. Thomas Burnet, Theo. of the Earth.
For ev'n that indigence, that brings me low,
Makes me myself, and him above to know. Dryden.Athens worshipped God with temples and sacrifices, as if he needed habitation and sustenance; and that the heathens had such a mean apprehension about the indigency of their gods, appears from Aristophanes and Lucian. Richard Bentley.
Webster Dictionary
Indigencynoun
indigence
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of indigency in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of indigency in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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