Unpropertied

//ʌnˈpɹɒpətiːd// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not propertied; not having property. not-comparable

    "Characteristically, perhaps, it was at the moment when political rights for the unpropertied were on the statute-books, but not enforced, that the Revolutionaries abolished slavery."

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"Characteristically, perhaps, it was at the moment when political rights for the unpropertied were on the statute-books, but not enforced, that the Revolutionaries abolished slavery."

Etymology

From un- + propertied.

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