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A state of extreme poverty or destitution
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pauperism
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pauperism \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 .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the state of being a pauper; poverty
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" [syn: indigence , need , penury , beggary , pauperization ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pauperism (Lat. pauper , poor) is a term meaning poverty or generally the state of being poor, but in English usage particularly the condition of being a "pauper", i.e. in receipt of relief administered under the English Poor Laws . From this springs a ...
Usage examples of pauperism.
There were entire sections devoted to insanity and cretinism, social and criminal pathology, suicide, pauperism and philanthropy, prison reform, prostitution and morphinism, capital punishment, abnormal psychology, legal codes, the argot of the underworld and code writing, toxicology, and police methods.
Does not banditism, that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains?