dispauperize
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Is dispauperize a Scrabble word?
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verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To free from pauperism, or from paupers.Examples: "Thomas Whately, of Cookham, a clergyman, to whom the country is much indebted for the example he has set in dispauperizing that parish, gave me a list of books, forming a tolerable library, which were in circulation amongst his parishioners of the labouring classes, by whom they are eagerly read […]"; "In all our more recent reports from the dispauperized parishes, it is stated that the wages are improved, and that the amount paid is greater than in the adjacent pauperized parishes."; "How unsatisfactory would have been that attempt to dispauperize the labourer, if the operation of the Act had been limited to some of the worst regulated parishes!"obsoletetransitive
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