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Definition of Pauperisation
1. Noun. The act of making someone poor.
Generic synonyms: Deprivation, Privation
Derivative terms: Impoverish, Impoverish, Pauperise, Pauperize
Definition of Pauperisation
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of pauperization) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pauperisation
Literary usage of Pauperisation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Farming Past & Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1917)
"... reduction in wages and scarcity of employment; allowances from the rates ;
general pauperisation : the new Poor Law, 1834, and its administration. ..."
2. Factors in Modern History by Albert Frederick Pollard (1907)
"... and perhaps national wealth could only be bought by the pauperisation of the
poor. But, if absence of control means that the weakest goes to the wall, ..."
3. Conditions of Social Well-being by David Cunningham (1878)
"been in a state of semi-pauperisation. ' The English poor-law and the English
poor-house have no counterpart in any other society or country. ..."
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