Immiseration
//ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n// noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Synonym of immiserization (“the process of making miserable or poor, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment, pauperization”). countable, uncountable
"Even Thomas More, the most populist of the sixteenth-century humanists striving to overcome the immiserations of serfdom, did not question slavery but endorsed it, as did, of course, the U.S. government as late as 1861."
Example
More examples"Even Thomas More, the most populist of the sixteenth-century humanists striving to overcome the immiserations of serfdom, did not question slavery but endorsed it, as did, of course, the U.S. government as late as 1861."
Etymology
From im- (prefix meaning ‘in; into; to; towards’) + miser(able) + -ation (suffix denoting actions or processes, or their results), a variant of immiserization.
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