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n. The quality or state of being a pauper.

n. the state of being a pauper; poverty

n. The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.

n. A pauper condition; the condition of those who are destitute of the means of support and are a charge upon the community; dependence on the poor-rates or some similar fund for support, or the poverty which makes such dependence necessary.

n. Paupers collectively.

n. Synonyms Indigence, Destitution, etc. (see poverty), mendicancy. beggary.

n. a state of extreme poverty or destitution

"Were one able to follow the example set us, among cities, by Leipsic (where the word pauperism is absolutely non - existent), we should have effectually turned the corner out of the ill - kept vagrant road into which Henry VIII first led us, when "pauperism" began to be a sore in the midst of England's healthy body of citizens."

poorness    poverty    impoverishment   

beggary    mendicancy    mendicity   

need    indigence    poverty    destitution    want   

destitution    beggary    homelessness    indigence    degeneracy