pauperism

How to use pauperism in a sentence

• How small are the masses of pauperism which we bring together, compared with the congestion of one vast House.

  English Poor Law Policy | Sidney Webb

• A substantial proportion of the excessive pauperism in the Redruth Union is thus accounted for.

  English Poor Law Policy | Sidney Webb

• It is, perhaps, most clearly seen in such physical diseases as phthisis, to which one-seventh of all the pauperism is due.

  English Poor Law Policy | Sidney Webb

• He was poor to the degree of pauperism, he had an incurable disease and he was almost absolutely in the power of tyrants.

  Girls and Women | Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}

• He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.

  Communism and Christianism | William Montgomery Brown