INDIGENT

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. [Obs.] Bacon.

2.
a.

Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous. Indigent faint souls past corporal toil. Shak. Charity consists in relieving the indigent. Addison.


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