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Pauperism

British pronunciation/pˈɔːpəɹˌɪzəm/
American pronunciation/pˈɔːpɚɹˌɪzəm/
Pauperism
[NOUN]
1

a state of extreme poverty or destitution

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1Modern economies yielded a sustained rise of material benefits, including rising productivity and wages, decreasing disease, poverty, and pauperism, and increasing inclusion.
2He ran as an outsider populist, promising L'extinction du pauperism to the poor, military discipline to Bonapartists, and a president untainted by the June Days to everyone else.
3He even managed to write and publish a book, L'extinction du pauperism (the Extinction of Poverty) which was almost Marxist in its treatment of the poor.
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