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ˈpoverty-ˌstricken, a.
Stricken or afflicted with poverty; suffering from poverty; reduced to great poverty; extremely poor or destitute.
1803M. Wilmot Let. 1 Oct. in Russ. Jrnls. (1934) i. 55 Amidst such a multitude of titles a count or countess is often the merest poverty stricken low bread [sic] animal that ever was known. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xv, Badged and ticketed as an utterly poverty-stricken man. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. iv. 27 A wretched poverty-stricken room. 1956Railway Mag. Nov. 739/2 The original promoters of the Port & Pier Railway could hardly have visualised their poverty-stricken child playing such an important role as it was destined to do!
fig.1852H. Rogers Ecl. Faith (1853) 44 If you profess..the possession of the pure truth, do not appear to be so poverty-stricken as to array your thoughts in the tatters of the cast-off Bible. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. v. 101 A language so poverty-stricken as the Chinese. |