The phrase "destitution of" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means lacking or being without something, typically something essential or crucial. Example: The recent economic crisis has led to the destitution of many families, leaving them without homes or steady sources of income.
Once again, Angola's strongmen prosper through the destitution of their people.
"I saw the grinding destitution of poverty that you often saw on TV.
Street children are huddling in the shade of a dilapidated shack; it is a scene of destitution, of desperation.
But she does not pity her friend: I thought of this destitution of hers as some spiritual or aesthetic exercise.
This painting marks the spiritual destitution of an artist whose extraordinary gifts as a draftsman might have put him safely after his "Guernica," among the great ones.
Their country won independence in 2011 after decades of rebellion against the mainly Muslim north, aggravating the destitution of most of its people.
This deep-rooted prejudice is highly tangible: It can directly be the cause of destitution, lack of healthcare, violence, and death.
Thirteen years old when her family fled Berlin and settled in northern Italy in 1938, she said her experience in Italy over the next eight years ran the spectrum from the despair of destitution to the exhilaration of freedom.
"Changes to the benefits system proposed today will expose people to the risk of destitution," said Kate Wareing of Oxfam, one of Britain's best-known charities.
For many, that moment, which America's politicians have refused to extend, represents the moment of destitution; a sort of modern American version of the old Victorian trip to the workhouse.
American conservatives routinely assert that the people of Europe live in virtual destitution because of their swollen welfare states.
