pauperism
- n a state of extreme poverty or destitution
- What did Britain have to do to avoid pauperism? In the past two years, Britain has spent abroad $4 billion more than it had earned, expects to spend this year at least $1 billion .
- Political asylum seekers are tested for: pauperism, subversion, moral turpitude.
- Ballard fizzled when she tried a comeback as a single act in 1968, suffered a series of nervous breakdowns and spent most of her final years in pauperism.