noun. The quality or state of being a pauper.

noun. A pauper condition; the condition of those who are destitute of the means of support and are a charge upon the community; dependence on the poor-rates or some similar fund for support, or the poverty which makes such dependence necessary.

noun. Paupers collectively.

noun. Synonyms Indigence, Destitution, etc. (see poverty), mendicancy. beggary.

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

noun. the state of being a pauper; poverty

noun. a state of extreme poverty or destitution

"Were one able to follow the example set us, among cities, by Leipsic (where the word pauperism is absolutely non - existent), we should have effectually turned the corner out of the ill - kept vagrant road into which Henry VIII first led us, when "pauperism" began to be a sore in the midst of England's healthy body of citizens."

impoverishment  poorness  poverty  

beggary  mendicancy  mendicity  

alcoholism  bankruptcy  beggary  criminality  degeneracy  

bare cupboard  bare subsistence  beggarliness  beggary  deprivation