pauperization
English
Noun
pauperization (countable and uncountable, plural pauperizations)
- The act or process of reducing to pauperism.
- 1848, [Charles Kingsley], Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC:
- the modern schemes for the amelioration which ignore the laws of competition, must end either in pauperization, […] or in the destruction of property
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pauperization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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