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- noun The state or condition of being
landless .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That must be done without altering the ethnic balance on the ground and without exacerbating landlessness, which is already one of the main sources of tension.
Balakrishnan Rajagopal: Securing Peace and Human Rights in Sri Lanka 2009
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On a larger systemic level, landlessness and weak land rights are major complaints of the Maoist rebels who have fomented violence across much of the Indian countryside.
Tim Hanstad: Bridging the Two Indias Tim Hanstad 2011
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On a larger systemic level, landlessness and weak land rights are major complaints of the Maoist rebels who have fomented violence across much of the Indian countryside.
Tim Hanstad: Bridging the Two Indias Tim Hanstad 2011
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Government of India statistics show that rural landlessness is the best predictor of poverty in India, an even better predictor than illiteracy or low caste.
Tim Hanstad: Bridging the Two Indias Tim Hanstad 2011
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Government of India statistics show that rural landlessness is the best predictor of poverty in India, an even better predictor than illiteracy or low caste.
Tim Hanstad: Bridging the Two Indias Tim Hanstad 2011
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On a larger systemic level, landlessness and weak land rights are major complaints of the Maoist rebels who have fomented violence across much of the Indian countryside.
Tim Hanstad: Bridging the Two Indias Tim Hanstad 2011
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What we've discovered while trying to tackle some of the world's most challenging problems --polio, HIV, malaria, landlessness, generational poverty, malnutrition - is that poverty, sickness, and frustration abroad affects us at home.
Tim Hanstad: Washington State's Most Important Export: Hope Tim Hanstad 2011
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Government of India statistics show that rural landlessness is the best predictor of poverty in India, an even better predictor than illiteracy or low caste.
Tim Hanstad: Bridging the Two Indias Tim Hanstad 2011
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Government of India statistics show that rural landlessness is the best predictor of poverty in India, an even better predictor than illiteracy or low caste.
Tim Hanstad: Bridging the Two Indias Tim Hanstad 2011
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On a larger systemic level, landlessness and weak land rights are major complaints of the Maoist rebels who have fomented violence across much of the Indian countryside.
Tim Hanstad: Bridging the Two Indias Tim Hanstad 2011
landlessness commented on the word landlessness
I first read this word in Moby Dick and fell in love with it. it's got alliteration with the l's. -less and -ness rhyme, but have opposing meanings. it's the perfect little package.
Plus, the context of the word in chapter 23 of Moby Dick was pretty powerful:
"But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God -- so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!"
April 27, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word landlessness
shorelessness; sealessness;
April 27, 2011