Impoverishment: alternatives and connections

The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

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The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.

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The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

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The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; u…

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The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence.

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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

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The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.

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The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

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Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.

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The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.

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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

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The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).

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The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

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Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.

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Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.

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