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Pauperism

Pauperism meaning

The state of being a pauper; poverty.

Example sentences (2)

It was one of the mendicant orders – together with that of the Dominicans, born in the same years, and others – which represented the Church’s “response” to the pauperism advocated by the Cathars and the Waldenses.

For Karl Marx, "the sphere of pauperism", including those still able to work, orphans and pauper children, and the "demoralised and ragged" or "unable to work".