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Pauperization

noun
1.
A state of extreme poverty or destitution.  Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, penury.  "A general state of need exists among the homeless"
2.
The act of making someone poor.  Synonyms: impoverishment, pauperisation.






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"Pauperization" Quotes from Famous Books



... children, and the blind, and deaf, and dumb, and halt, and mad. Wherever I have found one of my old workmen in need, and I have looked personally into the matter, I have provided for him fully, short of pauperization. Where I have heard of some gifted youth, I have had him educated in the line of his gift. I have collected a gallery of works of art, and opened it on Sundays as well as week-days to the public free. If there is a story of famine, ...
— Through the Eye of the Needle - A Romance • W. D. Howells



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