Definition of Pauperism

1. Noun. A state of extreme poverty or destitution. "A general state of need exists among the homeless"

Exact synonyms: Indigence, Need, Pauperization, Penury
Generic synonyms: Impoverishment, Poorness, Poverty
Specialized synonyms: Beggary, Mendicancy, Mendicity
Derivative terms: Indigent, Needy, Pauperize, Penurious

Definition of Pauperism

1. n. The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.

Definition of Pauperism

1. Noun. the state of being a pauper; poverty ¹

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Definition of Pauperism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pauperism

paunchs
paunchway
paunchways
paunchy
paune
pauper
pauperdom
paupered
paupering
pauperisation
pauperisations
pauperise
pauperised
pauperises
pauperising
pauperism (current term)
pauperisms
pauperization
pauperizations
pauperize
pauperized
pauperizes
pauperizing
paupers
paupiette
paupiettes
pauropoda
pausable
pausal
pause

Literary usage of Pauperism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1883)
"The Committee on pauperism having the evening session for the presentation of their subject, their chairman, Hon. HH Giles, of Wisconsin, read a paper by CS ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"Statistics of Comparative Genera!, and Old-aye pauperism in England and ... (2) Is there less continuous pauperism, but more casual and intermittent (3) How ..."

3. Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the by Isaac Aaronovich Hourwich (1922)
"But it is claimed that the evil effects of immigration show themselves in an alarming increase of pauperism and crime. The statistics of dependency and ..."

4. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Isabel Eaton (1899)
"About 1820 when the final results of the Act of 1780 were being felt, an act was passed " To prevent the increase of pauperism in the Commonwealth ..."

5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Attempts to prevent pauperism have been made in cities by the destruction of slums, the building of tenements, and the opening of parks and playgrounds. ..."

6. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1883)
"THE subject of " Friendly Societies, in their Relation to pauperism and Thrift," on which I have been honoured by an invitation to address you, ..."

7. The Gentleman's Magazine (1853)
"pauperism and Poor Laws. By Robert Pashley, one of Her Majesty's Council, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Author of Travels in Crete. ..."

8. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1868)
"pauperism 312 IX.—Insolvency 312 X.—Police 313 XL—Crime 816 APPENDIX. ... 325 E.—pauperism of England and Wales 326 pauperism of the Metropolis 326 ..."

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