pauperization

English

Etymology

pauperize +‎ -ation

Noun

pauperization (countable and uncountable, plural pauperizations)

1. The act or process of reducing to poverty.
   • 1848, [Charles Kingsley], Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC:

     the modern schemes for the amelioration which ignore the laws of competition, must end either in pauperization, […] or in the destruction of property

References

• “pauperization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.