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Noun: pauperism  'po-pu,ri-zum
  1. A state of extreme poverty or destitution
    - indigence, need, penury, pauperization

Derived forms: pauperisms

Type of: immiseration, immiserisation [Brit], immiserization, impoverishment, poorness, poverty

Encyclopedia: Pauperism

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