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Definition of Pauper
1. Noun. A person who is very poor.
Generic synonyms: Have-not, Poor Person
Derivative terms: Pauperize
Definition of Pauper
1. n. A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
Definition of Pauper
1. Noun. One who is extremely poor. ¹
2. Noun. One living on or eligible for public charity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pauper
1. to reduce to poverty [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pauper
Literary usage of Pauper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"[Bayley, J. asked, if there were any case where the pauper had been held to gain a
... SC 261, where the master consented that the pauper should go to the ..."
2. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"And the overseers of a parish to which a pauper belongs are not liable, without
an express promise, to reimburse the overseers of another parish, ..."
3. Publications by Niagara Historical Society (1906)
"Octr 16th William Hardy, a pauper, Aged 74, Haslemere, with the Small Pox. ...
Novr 1oth Hannah Gammon, a pauper, Aged 37, Haslemere, Octr 23d John Phillips ..."
4. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1877)
"pauper AND TRUANT CHILDREN. PAPERS. MR. FRANCIS PEEK. I MUCH regret that the
subject of truant children has been bracketed with that of pauper children, ..."
5. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1847)
"pauper Lunacy and Poor's Rate Statistics. AT the present moment, when the new
Lunacy Act is being brought into operation, the following notes respecting an ..."
6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1902)
"NP 147, »uin-a, that where a pauper was suddenly taken ill, and an apothecary
attended her without the previous request of the over- ..."
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