pauperise
- a variation of pauperize.
Example Sentences
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So as not to pauperise the people, subscriptions of one penny a week were asked from every house in the town.
From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Gordon, Home, Sir, Bart.
The companies were not slow in helping to swell public subscriptions and in assisting to pauperise the labouring class.
From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Hibbert, Francis Aiden
For one thing I would not have them pauperise two of the finest things in this world and the best worth fighting for—Education and Literature.
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Corelli, Marie
They're all well-to-do farmers or else able-bodied labourers, and his one terror is that somebody will come and try to pauperise them.
From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Allen, Grant
No, sir, don’t think you can pauperise me.
From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)
