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penniless, a.|ˈpɛnɪlɪs|
Also penny-, † peny-, etc.: see penny.
[f. penny + -less.]
Not having a penny; having no money; poor, destitute.
c1310in Pol. Songs (Camden) 255 For thef is reve, the lond is penyles. 1406Hoccleve Misrule 130, I were nakidly bystad By force of the penylees maladie. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. i. xxiv. (1867) 98 Thou art penilesse. 1592Greene Art Conny Catch. ii. 11 He was..turned to walke penny-lesse in Mark-lane, as the prouerb is. 1699Garth Dispens. 12 Or where ill Poets Pennyless confer. 1727Bailey vol. II, Penniless. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 171 ⁋10 At length I became absolutely pennyless. 1824Byron Def. Transf. (1837) i. ii. 132 Though pennyless all. 1874Green Short Hist. ix. §8. 680 Either course must end in leaving the Government penniless.
†b. penniless bench: name of a covered bench which formerly stood beside Carfax Church, Oxford; and app. of similar open-air seats elsewhere; prob. as being the resort of destitute wayfarers. Hence allusively. Obs.
1560–1in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 284 Item, to..Sylvester Kechyn, for mending the peneles benche..ij s. iiij d. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 244 Every stoole he sate on was Penniles bench. 1596Bp. W. Barlow Three Serm. i. 120 By which..they bring both their parentes and themselues vnto Peniless bench. c1600L. Hutton Antiq. Oxford in Eliz. Oxford (O.H.S. 1886) 86 On the left hand, under the East end of St. Martins Church, yee see that Seate, which is called Pennelesse Bench, builded by the Cittie, as well for their solace and prospect every waie, as for the conveniencie of the Market Women in the tyme of Raine. 1615Swetnam Arraignm. Wom. (1880) p. xxiv, Ashamed to returne home againe..by weeping crosse and pennyles bench. 1629MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For mending of pennye-less bench halfe a dayes worke. a1672Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 139. 1860 J. W. Warter Sea-board II. 43 Though he have sometimes to sit on the Penniless Bench.
Hence ˈpennilessly adv.; ˈpennilessness.
1871Sala in Belgravia XIV. 421 The pennilessness of their spouses. 1890Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. (1891) 308 Did he really journey pennilessly down to Eton? |