Thesaurus / pauperism

pauperism

How to use pauperism in a sentence

How small are the masses of pauperism which we bring together, compared with the congestion of one vast House.

A substantial proportion of the excessive pauperism in the Redruth Union is thus accounted for.

It is, perhaps, most clearly seen in such physical diseases as phthisis, to which one-seventh of all the pauperism is due.

He was poor to the degree of pauperism, he had an incurable disease and he was almost absolutely in the power of tyrants.

GIRLS AND WOMENHARRIET E. PAINE (AKA E. CHESTER}

He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.

In 1561 a commission was issued to enquire into the best means of facing the problem of social pauperism.

How long would intemperance continue, and pauperism, in Boston; how long slavery in this land?

It is one of her glories that her enemies accuse her of fostering pauperism by too lavish charity.

The world was somewhat weary of Landlordism, Pauperism, and Protestantism, and all the other "isms" of that unhappy country.

ROLAND CASHELCHARLES JAMES LEVER

Perhaps the gravest of all the problems which were to occupy the coming generation was the problem of pauperism.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985