Meaning of PAUPERISM
| Pronunciation: | | 'popu`rizum
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| | Definition: | | [n] a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" |
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| | Synonyms: | | beggary, indigence, need, pauperization, penury |
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| | See Also: | | impoverishment, poorness, poverty | |
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| | Definition: | | \Pau"per*ism\, n. [Cf. F. paup['e]risme.]
The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons
requiring support from the community. --Whatly.
Syn: Poverty; indigence; penury; want; need; destitution. See
{Poverty}.
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| | Related Terms: | | bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, deprivation, destitution, empty purse, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, lack, mendicancy, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, want |
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