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- noun Plural form of
pauper .
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Examples
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It is more expensive to maintain paupers forever than to establish free, self-supporting citizens.
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It is more expensive to maintain paupers forever than to establish free, self-supporting citizens.
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Sickening Harman then 'compacts' their remains i.e. grinds them up in a great crem' tumble grinder and crams them into the sort of multiple graves which in 19th and early 20th century were known as paupers' graves.
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Third, as noted earlier, because these lawsuit terrorists usually file Court papers themselves pro se (without a lawyer) and as so-called paupers, they bypass both filing fees (at taxpayer expense) and the cost of daunting attorney fees.
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The great mass of them may be called paupers, claiming aid from the societies through whose agency they are brought out.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Year after year these titled paupers -- these shameless parodies on God's masterpiece -- paddle across the pond to barter their tawdy dishonor for boodle, to sell their shame-crested coronets to porcine-souled American parvenues, who if spawned by slaves and born in hell would disgrace their parentage and dishonor their country.
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He realized the importance of the social question when he visited Lille, where there were 32,000 paupers, that is nearly half the population.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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But the hand of sleep lay softly there; only a sick soul or two stirred, the paupers were the equal of princes till a hoarse bell brought them back out of blessed unconsciousness.
Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911
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Why, after 500 years of capital's rule, at the beginning of the third millennium, are workers on a mass scale still defined as paupers, witches, and outlaws?
Counago & Spaves 2008
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Why, after 500 years of capital's rule, at the beginning of the third millennium, are workers on a mass scale still defined as paupers, witches, and outlaws?
Counago & Spaves 2008
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