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pauperize, v.|ˈpɔːpəraɪz|
[f. pauper + -ize.]
trans. To make a pauper of; to reduce to the condition of a pauper, or to poverty or destitution; esp. to make dependent on public relief.
1834H. Martineau Moral ii. 47 The indigent who have been pauperized by the undue depression of wages. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. vi. (1880) 99 Though they were poor, they were not pauperised, but thrifty and self-helping. 1902A. M. Fairbairn Philos. Chr. Relig. i. iv. 141 There is nothing so fatal to the manhood of a people as the charity that pauperizes.
Hence ˈpauperized, ˈpauperizing ppl. adjs.; also ˈpauperizer, one who pauperizes.
1834H. Martineau Moral ii. 75 The dreary haunts of our pauperized classes. 1844Tupper Heart i. 9 When did heart ever gain money?—bah! heart indeed—pauperizing bit of muscle! 1883H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 60 Arabi drove out these pauperizers of the people. 1886in J. F. Maurice Lett. Donegal 4 Pauperising charity..produces the ordinary fruits which all the best friends of the poor have..preached that it does... The people become regular acting beggars. |