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pauper

[ US /ˈpɔpɝ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɔːpɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who is very poor

How To Use pauper In A Sentence

  • Compared to a Finno-Ugric language like Estonian or Hungarian, which has tons of cases with exotic names like the inessive, superessive, ablative, translative, and exessive, English seems as poor as a pauper on payday. 2009 October « Motivated Grammar
  • It almost feels like we're a bunch of paupers waiting outside a rich man's house.
  • The blame rests with successive weak and myopic Cong govts whose stupid policies destroyed the economy, leaving India pauperized, unable to help anyone as she herself was abegging for aid. India vs China SnapShot
  • -- The scientific remedies for poverty and pauperism, that is, the scientific methods of dealing with the various dependent classes and of preventing their existence, now form the subject-matter of a great independent science, the science of philanthropy, which, as we have already seen, may be considered a branch of applied sociology. Sociology and Modern Social Problems
  • The first known record of Royal Maundy took place here, when King John fed and clothed 13 paupers in 1210.
  • Mozart died in 1791 and was buried in a pauper's grave at Vienna's St. Mark's Cemetery.
  • Why does the world minify our intelligence by depreciating our favorite article of diet, and express the ultimate extreme of mental pauperism by saying of him on whose intellect they would heap contempt, "He doesn't know beans"? Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
  • She is supposed to have disguised herself as a pauper for a young priest who, out of charity, took her to an inn to feed her.
  • We permitted millions of people to die or be reduced to misery and pauperdom.
  • She was buried in a pauper's grave this weekend.
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