Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pauperism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pauperism \Pau"per*ism\, n. [Cf. F. paup['e]risme.]
The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons
requiring support from the community. --Whatly.
Syn: Poverty; indigence; penury; want; need; destitution. See
{Poverty}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pauperism
n : a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
homeless" [syn: {indigence}, {need}, {penury}, {beggary}]
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