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Definition of Pauperizes
1. pauperize [v] - See also: pauperize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pauperizes
Literary usage of Pauperizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poverty and Dependency: Their Relief and Prevention by John Lewis Gillin (1921)
"Common observation, however, in public poor relief, would lead us to suppose that
much of what is given by public poor relief officials pauperizes in its ..."
2. Poverty and Riches: A Study of the Industrial Régime by Scott Nearing (1916)
"School lunches pauperize the children; mothers' pensions pauperize the families;
all forms of assistance given to individuals at public expense pauperizes ..."
3. The American Journal of Politics (1893)
"War pauperizes the people, fills the jails, makes countless widows, orphans, and
cripples, ... That war pauperizes the nation there can be no doubt, ..."
4. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"It pauperizes the monarchical imagination ! The strength of these aesthetic
sentiments makes it 1 In Newman's Lectures on Justification, Lecture VIII. ..."
5. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob August Riis (1890)
"But charity of the kind that pauperizes is furthest from their scheme. Self-help
is its very key-note, and it strikes a response in the boy's sturdiest ..."
6. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"All this means that our work must be frankly philanthropic — using not the charity
which pauperizes, but the help which nourishes self-help. ..."
7. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1885)
"... and induces a condition akin to that which pauperizes Europe—that of expecting
the State to take care of the citizen at public charge. ..."
8. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1921)
"One person may think unemployment insurance desirable; another that it is untimely;
another that it pauperizes labor. One person may agree that it is ..."
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