单词 | pauperizing |
释义 | pauperizingadj. That pauperizes. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > making poor impoverishing1598 pauperizing1817 beggaring1883 1817 W. Cobbett Let. 30 Jan. in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 1 Feb. 133 The effects of Taxation, the Pauperizing degradation. 1844 M. F. Tupper Heart i. 9 When did heart ever gain money?—bah! heart indeed—pauperizing bit of muscle! 1905 Daily Chron. 1 Dec. 4/4 He has been ‘institutionalised’, and I never yet knew the average man survive that pauperising ordeal. 1926 Viscount Knutsford In Black & White xxxii. 385 Pauperizing agency, indeed! Is it pauperizing to give a fellow a lift on the way, to help him when down in suffering or sickness? 2005 N. Durbach Bodily Matters i. 16 Many found the poor resistant to the pauperizing nature of Poor Law medicine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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