Indigences [noun]

It must be a dreadful situation for any man to have to choose between roguery and indigence.

Their kings are without power and without glory; their subjects languish in indigence and wretchedness.

Banished from his native country and without any resource, Diogenes was reduced to great indigence.

And a life of simplicity and indigence, which moderates the sexual desires, now seems to me good.

Ordinary minds avoid, as much as possible, recurring to past periods of indigence and inferiority of station.

On the contrary, their superfluous possessions were applied by them to the relief of indigence.

Evils, which the extremes of wealth and indigence are ever productive of in free countries.

There is a pride in life born of indigence as there is the pride of wealth.

At length, he and his lady returned to England, where they were obliged to live in obscurity and indigence.

At the call of indigence or avarice, the master of a family could dispose of his children or his slaves.