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poverty
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poverty noun absence, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, dearth, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, embarrassed circumstances, exigency, famine, humbleness, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, insolvency, lack, leanness, loss of fortune, meagerness, mendicancy, mendicity, narrow means, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, needy circumstances, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, poor circumstances, privation, reduced circumstances, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, slender means, sparseness, starvation, straitened circumstances, straits, subsistence level, tenuitas, unprosperousness, want
Associated concepts: proceed in forma pauperus
See also: dearth, deficiency, indigence, paucity, privation


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Professor Mori looks at political parties, the debate in ideas, the strength of radical feeling, the importance of religion, poverty and pauperism, the nature of the governing class and of the economy as it coped with the demands of a long and very expensive war, the development of war aims and the final peace settlement that restored the Bourbons to their throne.
1837; Lynn Lees, Poverty and Pauperism in nineteenth century London.
Their most gifted theologian and writer, Donald Macleod, has even been drawn off into the Brown-Fry book, to which he contributes a study of Chalmers' policy towards poverty and pauperism, which reflected both his social concern and what would now be called his Thatcherite economics.
 
 
 
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