pauperism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pauperism
Example Sentences
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Ballard fizzled when she tried a comeback as a single act in 1968, suffered a series of nervous breakdowns and spent most of her final years in pauperism.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Bob McVea, a Northwestern journalism student who plans to join a newspaper, puts it: "You have to be dedicated to pauperism."
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Last Saturday's document categorically declared that "socialism does not mean pauperism, for it aims at the elimination of poverty."
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What did Britain have to do to avoid pauperism?
From Time Magazine Archive
Without equality, eugenics would inevitably falter on the false premise that social ills, such as vagrancy, pauperism, deviance, alcoholism, and feeblemindedness were genetic ills—while, in fact, they merely reflected inequality.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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