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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, English Poor Laws, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Measurements and definitions of poverty
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indigence  need  penury  pauperism  pauperization
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Pauperism is poverty or generally the state of being poor, or particularly the condition of being a "pauper", i.e. receiving relief administered under the English Poor Laws. Wikipedia
The state of being reliant on charity or public social assistance, often associated with deep poverty and homelessness Wikidata
Extreme poverty or destitution. OmegaWiki
Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. Wiktionary
Lack of means of subsistence. Wiktionary (translation)
The state of being a pauper; poverty. Wiktionary
The act or process of reducing to pauperism. Wiktionary
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Their indigence appalled him WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A general state of need exists among the homeless WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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