dispauperize
English
Verb
dispauperize (third-person singular simple present dispauperizes, present participle dispauperizing, simple past and past participle dispauperized)
- (transitive, obsolete) To free from pauperism, or from paupers.
- 1834, Evidence on Drunkenness: Presented to the House of Commons:
- Thomas Whately, of Cookham, a clergyman, to whom the country is much indebted for the example he has set in dispauperizing that parish, gave me a list of books, forming a tolerable library, which were in circulation amongst his parishioners of the labouring classes, by whom they are eagerly read […]
- 1836, John Stuart Mill, “Municipal reform, as required for the metropolis”, in The London and Westminster Review, volume 25, page 72:
- How unsatisfactory would have been that attempt to dispauperize the labourer, if the operation of the Act had been limited to some of the worst regulated parishes!
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