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imˈpoverishment
[ad. AF. empoverissement, f. empoverir to impoverish: see im-2.]
1. The fact or process of impoverishing or making poor; the condition of being impoverished; loss of wealth or means; that which has this effect.
1560Becon New Catech. Wks. 1564 I. 367 b, To the empouerishment and losse of his goods. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 57 To abstaine from almes for feare of impoverishment. 1727Swift View St. Irel. Wks. 1761 III. 169 All appeals for justice..to another country, are so many impoverishments. 1850Grote Greece ii. lxiii. VII. 230 The ruin and impoverishment..inflicted by the Persian invasion of Attica. 1897W. C. Hazlitt Four Generat. II. 134 His fondness for little dinners and other sweet impoverishments.
2. The process of making or becoming poor in quality; deterioration.
1618Latham 2nd Bk. Falconry (1633) 23 And on this impouerishment attendeth many other infirmities. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 163 A further impoverishment of spirits. 1860Adler Fauriel's Prov. Poetry vii. 136 The natural tendency of languages towards disintegration and impoverishment. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 489 Impoverishment and excessive fluidity of the blood. |