impoverishmentn.
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.
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the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > becoming or making poor
impoverishing1450
poverishing1484
poverance1529
beggaringa1536
impoverishment1564
poverishment1568
depauperation1664
letdown1768
pauperization1812
depauperization1845
immiserization1942
1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 367 b To the empouerishment and losse of his goods.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 57 To abstaine from almes for feare of impoverishment.
1728 J. Swift Short View State Ireland 5 All Appeals for Justice..to another Country, are so many grievous Impoverishments.
1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lxiii. 230 The ruin and impoverishment..inflicted by the Persian invasion of Attica.
1897 W. C. Hazlitt Four Generations Lit. Family II. 134 His fondness for little dinners and other sweet impoverishments.
2. The process of making or becoming poor in quality; deterioration.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [noun] > other
rot1581
off-falling1607
impoverishment1618
degradation1770
1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie viii. 23 And on this impouerishment attendeth many other infirmities.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 163 A further impoverishment of spirits.
1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry vii. 136 The natural tendency of languages towards disintegration and impoverishment.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 489 Impoverishment and excessive fluidity of the blood.
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