Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or state of being a pauper.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A pauper condition; the condition of those who are destitute of the means of support and are a charge upon the community; dependence on the poor-rates or some similar fund for support, or the poverty which makes such dependence necessary.
- n. Paupers collectively.
- n. Synonyms Indigence, Destitution, etc. (see poverty), mendicancy. beggary.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a state of extreme poverty or destitution
Examples
“Were one able to follow the example set us, among cities, by Leipsic (where the word pauperism is absolutely non - existent), we should have effectually turned the corner out of the ill - kept vagrant road into which Henry VIII first led us, when "pauperism" began to be a sore in the midst of England's healthy body of citizens.”
“According to government statistics, it is said ninety-eight percent of the American people are living from day to day on their wages, which means that a loss of employment would result in pauperism for all but two percent.”
“-- The scientific remedies for poverty and pauperism, that is, the scientific methods of dealing with the various dependent classes and of preventing their existence, now form the subject-matter of a great independent science, the science of philanthropy, which, as we have already seen, may be considered a branch of applied sociology.”
“It is safe to say that from 50 to 75 per cent of the total negro population of the United States live in poverty as distinguished from pauperism, that is, live under such conditions that physical and mental efficiency cannot be maintained.”
“Even the kind of pauperism and crime in which they indulged was particularly disgraceful.”
“Now, it is a self-evident fact that "pauperism," which is a living drag on our social wheel, can _not_ be dealt with other than by rigorous local government.”
“They entirely forget, that the first promulgation of the Gospel was made at a time when the worst kind of pauperism prevailed; and that even the Master Himself, and the greater number of His Apostles belonged to the lowest stratum of society.”
“Its administration is confined to that pauperism which is so despairing as to allow itself to be caught and detained.”
“Their homes are wretched hovels, their surroundings are forbidding and their minds are sunken in a kind of pauperism out of which it seems impossible to arouse them. ”
“The figures are appalling: 1,800,000 people in London live on the poverty line and below it, and 1,000,000 live with one week's wages between them and pauperism.”
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