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pauper
(redirected from pauperise)

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pauper
(formerly) a destitute person supported by public charity


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Does the Government want to pauperise as many of us as possible, to bribe us into docility with offers of desperately-needed "benefits"?
As he said when dedicating the Pittsburgh Public Library in 1895 There is nothing here that can tend to pauperise, for there is neither trace nor taint of charity; nothing which will help any man who does not help himself; nothing is given here for nothing.
To this sequence of events, "pose-colonial African leaders proceeded to pauperise their respective patches.
 
 
 
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