indigence

But there are many more people balancing precariously on the verge of indigence.

The decay of manufactures ſince the laſt century muſt have reduced many families to indigence.

On the contrary, they are kept in a state of obscurity and contempt, and in a degree of indigence at times bordering on beggary.

The basest of men enriched themselves, and many of the most estimable sank into obscurity and indigence.