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countable and uncountable, plural indigences
Extreme poverty or destitution. quotations examples
On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.
2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, page 4