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poverty
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poverty noun absence, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, dearth, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, embarrassed circumstances, exigency, famine, humbleness, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, insolvency, lack, leanness, loss of fortune, meagerness, mendicancy, mendicity, narrow means, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, needy circumstances, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, poor circumstances, privation, reduced circumstances, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, slender means, sparseness, starvation, straitened circumstances, straits, subsistence level, tenuitas, unprosperousness, want
Associated concepts: proceed in forma pauperus
See also: dearth, deficiency, indigence, paucity, privation


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Topics include Augustine's mission to England, barbarian conversion, popular religion's adaptation of folk and formal, marriage, the Crusades, the Jewish community, religious movements, religious poverty and the profit economy, women mystics, the decline of magic and the first reformations.
Francis nonetheless worried about changes in that rule, which demanded that members of the order observe a severe form of religious poverty.
Lollardism preached the dropping of enforced celibacy, the extension of religious poverty and the translation of the bible into English, but some preachers went too far extending their beliefs into free love, although Grace was not one of those.
 
 
 
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