pauperization Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a state of extreme poverty or destitution
    need; penury; pauperism; indigence.
    • their indigence appalled him
    • a general state of need exists among the homeless
  2. noun the act of making someone poor
    pauperisation; impoverishment.

WordNet

Pau`per*i*za"tion noun
Definitions
  1. The act or process of reducing to pauperism. C. Kingsley.

Webster 1913