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  • noun Plural form of pauper.

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Examples

  • It is more expensive to maintain paupers forever than to establish free, self-supporting citizens.

    The Arabs of Palestine 1969

  • It is more expensive to maintain paupers forever than to establish free, self-supporting citizens.

    The Arabs of Palestine 1961

  • 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.

    Blears Poaches Harman's PPS 2007

  • 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.

    Settlement Support Center, LLC 2005

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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