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dispauperize en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + pauperize.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To free from pauperism, or from paupers.
   • How unsatisfactory would have been that attempt to dispauperize the labourer, if the operation of the Act had been limited to some of the worst regulated parishes! 1836, John Stuart Mill, “Municipal reform, as required for the metropolis”, in The London and Westminster Review, volume 25, page 72:
   • In all our more recent reports from the dispauperized parishes, it is stated that the wages are improved, and that the amount paid is greater than in the adjacent pauperized parishes. 1835, The Farmer's Magazine, volume 3, page 301:
   • Thomas Whately, of Cookham, a clergyman, to whom the country is much indebted for the example he has set in dispauperizing that parish, gave me a list of books, forming a tolerable library, which were in circulation amongst his parishioners of the labouring classes, by whom they are eagerly read […] 1834, Evidence on Drunkenness: Presented to the House of Commons:

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