Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; a reducing to indigence; reduction of vigor, capacity, fertility, etc.; deterioration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The action of
impoverishing someone. - noun The state of being
impoverished .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
- noun the act of making someone poor
Etymologies
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Examples
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One must guard against the misinterpretation of this term impoverishment as compared with the state of affairs which would have developed in the absence of credit expansion and the boom.
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An impoverishment is what I'd call it, and more than likely what the American public will once again be offered.
Matt Reeves Explains Why He’s Remaking Let The Right One In | /Film 2008
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What we're facing is the long-term impoverishment of the majority of the population in order to prop up a system where people at the top can cream off their fees and cream off their very fat incomes.
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Second, as it relates to the English vernacular specifically (and possibly other language groups as well) we have been subjected to a highly problematic English translation of the Roman missal - an impoverishment which is thankfully being addressed in our own day with a new, more faithful English translation of the modern Roman Missal underway.
Cardinal DiNardo, the Book of Divine Worship, and Thoughts on Hieratic English in the Liturgy 2009
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I´ve seen what people´s lives are actually like in unreconstructed tribal units, and the kind of brutality, unhappiness, narrowness, and spiritual impoverishment which is the human fate in such circumstances- and its a very hard fate to get out of, because a self-referential, collective self-hypnotic trance of entrapment within the tribal story is part of the landscape.
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Her life had undergone that impoverishment which is so dangerous to elementary natures, the loss of an ideal.
Demos George Gissing 1880
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So, the two assertions of 'impoverishment' and 'pollution' are demonstrably false. act like the professor you take as an e-name but fail to emulate, and ask me for my evidence showing your false assertions are false? daweber wrote: Mike Kiley, at the moment we have only three sources of
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local vannelia 2010
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Like Patten, Veblen feared that the impoverishment of workers was leading them to lives of undisciplined pleasure-seeking.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Before the invasion of Gaza on 27 December 2008, Israel's siege had already created a humanitarian catastrophe there, with severe impoverishment, malnutrition, and destroyed infrastructure.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Our political culture scarcely needs more impoverishment than it already has.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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