poorness

poorness

English

Etymology

From Middle English poornes, porenes, porenesse, pornes, pornesse, povernesse, powrenesse; equivalent to poor +‎ -ness.

Noun

poorness (countable and uncountable, plural poornesses)

  1. The quality of being poor
  2. poverty

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