What happened to the Christian concern to “love the least of these,” the most vulnerable, the most destitute?
And by 1918 much of Central and Eastern Europe was starving and destitute.
From the American Dust Bowl, thousands of destitute farm families stream westward.
Six months later, she was in love, pregnant, and, as her furious parents cut her off, destitute.
Nation building in a country as destitute and decentralized as Afghanistan, he argued, was hopeless.
Gosse found the country generally poor and destitute of water.
He found the district to the north to be a dreary waste, destitute of food and water.
Do you think me destitute of every honest, every natural feeling?
Remember the interpositions of God to supply the necessities of the destitute.
His eyes travelled over her hands and neck, destitute of ornaments.
late 14c., "abandoned, forsaken," from Latin destitutus "abandoned," past participle of destituere "forsake," from de- "away" + statuere "put, place," causative of stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Originally literal; sense of "lacking resources, impoverished" is 1530s.
