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单词 destitution
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destitutionn.

/dɛstɪˈtjuːʃən/
Etymology: < French destitution (1316 in Godefroy Suppl.), < Latin dēstitūtiōn-em forsaking, abandoning, noun of action < dēstituĕre (see destitute adj. and n.); in Romanic usually a noun of condition.
1. The action of deserting or forsaking. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Destitution, a leaving or forsaking.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Destitution, an utter forsaking or deserting.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Destitution, a leaving, or forsaking, an utter abandoning; also, a being left, forsaken, etc.
2. Deprivation of office; discharge; dismissal.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [noun]
off-puttinga1387
supplantationa1393
deposal1397
deposition1399
amotion1441
privation1444
subversion1470
deposing1480
dispointment1483
quietus est1530
cassing1550
deprivation1551
remove1553
destitution1554
depose1559
abdication1574
dismissionc1600
renvoy1600
displacement1611
deprivement1630
quietus1635
removal1645
deposure1648
displacing1655
cashierment1656
discarding1660
amoval1675
depriving1705
superannuation1722
separation1779
ouster1782
disestablishment1806
dismissal1849
epuration1883
deprival1886
purge1893
society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > dismissal or discharge
discharginga1398
discharge1523
quietus est1530
conduction1538
cassing1550
remove1553
destitution1554
mittimus1596
dismissionc1600
quietus1635
removal1645
cashierment1656
separation1779
dismissing1799
dismissala1806
to give (a person) the sack1825
bullet1841
congee1847
decapitation1869
G.B.1880
the shove1899
spear1912
bob-tail1915
severance1941
sacking1958
termination1974
1554 Act 1 & 2 Phil. & M. c. 8 §33 The Institutions and Destitutions of and in Benefices and Promotions Ecclesiastical.
1644 H. Leslie Blessing of Ivdah 27 In Law, Institution and Destitution belong both to one.
1683 J. Fitzwilliam in Lady Russell's Lett. (1773) vii. 8 Want of leisure occasioned by the destitution of a Curate by illness.
1864 R. C. Trench Parables 408 The man [the unjust steward] not so much as attempting a defence, his destitution [1886 dismissal] follows.
3. (a) The condition of wanting or being lacking (of or †in anything); want. (b) The condition of being abandoned or left helpless, of being deprived or bereft (of anything).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > non-possession > [noun] > state of being devoid of something > lacking or being without something
missOE
tharningc1175
missinga1375
lacking1377
wantingc1390
necessitya1393
destitutiona1440
poverty?1440
misture1563
unprovidedness1606
unprovision1631
wantingness1643
carency1655
nudity1656
destituteness1818
a1440 Found. St. Bartholomew's 59 A certeyne woman..was smyte with a Palsy..And yn that destitucyoun of her lymmys duryd nat a litill tyme.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. x. 70 Destitution in these [sc. food and clothing] is such an impediment.
1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 12 Theire destitucion of zeale to Gods glorie.
1684 J. Fitzwilliam in Lady Russell's Lett. (1773) xii. 19 The destitution of his real self, will..cause a stronger sense of your loss.
1727 [see sense 1].
1767 L. Sterne Let. 9 Apr. in Lett. 1765–8 (2009) 572 Thy mother and thyself at a distance from me..what can compensate for such a destitution?
1791 W. Combe Devil upon Two Sticks V. xvii. 92 A destitution of all principle, honour, sentiment and feeling.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. vii. 268 The opposite principle of atheism..does not necessarily imply any destitution of just moral perceptions.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xv. 116 That..destitution of points of comparison, which make[s] the pyramids so deceptive.
4. spec. The condition of being destitute of resources; want of the necessaries of life.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > extreme poverty or destitution
nakedness1526
starkness1544
beggary1581
destitutiona1600
primary poverty1901
down-and-outness1907
Tobacco Road1937
a1600 R. Hooker in Wks. (1845) I. 505 They..are not left in so extreme destitution, that justly any man should think the ordinary means of eternal life taken from them.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xxv. 17 Paraphr.) 142 My anxieties and destitutions daily increase.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Destitution, want, poverty.
1849 R. Cobden Speeches 33 Left in a state of destitution.
1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xiv. 108 The Christian inhabitants of Thessaly would be reduced to destitution.
1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 62 He put an end to his life as the only means of escaping destitution.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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