immiseration en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃən/ (General-American)
- /ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology
From im- (prefix meaning ‘in; into; to; towards’) + miser(able) + -ation (suffix denoting actions or processes, or their results), a variant of immiserization.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Synonym of immiserization (“the process of making miserable or poor, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment, pauperization”).
Even Thomas More, the most populist of the sixteenth-century humanists striving to overcome the immiserations of serfdom, did not question slavery but endorsed it, as did, of course, the U.S. government as late as 1861.
2010, Jacqueline Stevens, “Introduction”, in States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals, New York, N.Y.; Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 23:Unimaginable amounts of suffering have been caused by tyrants who callously presided over the immiseration of their peoples or launched destructive wars of conquest.
2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 627:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| immiserations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |