depauperize

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depauperize

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From de- + pauperize.

verb depauperizes · depauperizing · depauperized

  1. dated, transitive To free from paupers or pauperism. in Scotland, where the pauper child has been placed out to board with a cottager at an expense, covering everything, of 9l. a year. Here it has been proved what family kindness, shown even by strangers, will do to depauperise
  2. transitive To rescue from poverty. Now it seemed, not only was labor insufficient to depauperize the population, the labor process itself was now seen to be threatening social disorder and mass demoralization […]
  3. transitive To impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate).

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