单词 | destitution |
释义 | destitutionn.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). < n.a1440 |
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