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Immiseration

//ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n// noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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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