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The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
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impoverishment
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions [syn: poverty , poorness ] [ant: wealth ] the act of making someone poor [syn: pauperization , pauperisation ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s; see impoverish + -ment .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The action of impoverishing someone. 2 The state of being impoverished.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impoverishment \Im*pov"er*ish*ment\, n. [Cf. OF. empoverissement, and F. appauvrissement.] The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty. --Sir W. Scott.
Usage examples of impoverishment.
There may be gastric disturbance, irritation of the skin and mucous membranes, impoverishment of the blood, palpitation of the heart, twinges of rheumatism, headache on the top of the head with a sense of fullness, a persistent feeling of tiredness and other symptoms of disturbed metabolism.
But for all its spiritual impoverishments, this isn't the worst of places.
On long space missions, sessions in the quivira were a medicine for sensory impoverishment.
This was the first defect, and the first impoverishment, and the first flaw of their nature, which was created, not indeed supremely existent, but finding its blessedness in the enjoyment of the Supreme Being.