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depauperize

verb

Etymology

From de- + pauperize.

  1. learned borrowing from pauper — “poor”
  2. suffixed as pauperize — “pauper + ize”
  3. prefixed as depauperize — “de + pauperize”

Definitions

  1. To free from paupers or pauperism.

    • in Scotland, where the pauper child has been placed out to board with a cottager at an expense, covering everything, of 9l. a year. Here it has been proved what family kindness, shown even by strangers, will do to depauperise

  2. To rescue from poverty.

    • Now it seemed, not only was labor insufficient to depauperize the population, the labor process itself was now seen to be threatening social disorder and mass demoralization […]

  3. To impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate).

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