Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To emancipate from a condition of poverty or pauperism; free from paupers or pauperism.
- To impoverish or render poor; depauperate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To free from
paupers . - verb transitive To rescue from
poverty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What is needed is to depauperize him, and this can only be done by finding him work — not work for the sake of working, but work of which he can enjoy the benefit.
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What is needed is to depauperize him, and this can only be done by finding him worknot work for the sake of working, but work of which he can enjoy the benefit.
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Liverpool, in which it was lately proved that crime -- and especially the crime of uneducated boys and girls -- had cost, in the last few years, the city many times more than it would cost to educate, civilize, and depauperize the whole rising generation of that city, and had been a tax upon the capital and industry of Liverpool, so enormous that they would have submitted to it from no Government on earth; and yet they had been blindly inflicting it upon themselves for years, simply because they chose to forget that they were their brothers 'keepers.
Sermons for the Times Charles Kingsley 1847
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