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Definition of Poorest
1. poor [adj] - See also: poor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poorest
Literary usage of Poorest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1903)
"The best cow in this herd gave a profit of $18.40, while the poorest was kept at
an actual loss of $17.83. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"He was ordained in July 1840, and took a curacy in the parish of St. Mary Ka-
lendar, in the poorest part of Winchester, where, between the strenuousness of ..."
3. The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in Statistics by Adna Ferrin Weber (1899)
"The fact that the poorest districts of great cities often 1 Thus Cantlie, author
of Degeneration amon<> Londoners, " after prolonged and ..."
4. The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in Statistics by Adna Ferrin Weber (1899)
"(6) The typical city class, the middle class or bourgeoisie, is incapable of
self-perpetuation (p. 27). The fact that the poorest districts of great cities ..."
5. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"Th# ancientest and poorest Num. ... The poorest: (3.) The latest nuns in England.
Of the first sort we account the she-Benedictines, commonly called "Black ..."
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