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obolary
o-BO-la-ree
adjective
a state of extreme poverty
1913Charles LambThe Works of Charles and Mary LambHe is the true taxer who 'calleth all the world up to be taxed:' and the distance is as vast between him and one of us, as subsisted betwixt the Augustan Majesty and the poorest obolary Jew that paid it tribute—pittance at Jerusalem!—His exactions, too, have such a cheerful, voluntary air!

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