Pauper
['pɔːpə] or ['pɔpɚ]
Definition
(n.) A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mendicant, beggar, starveling, poor person (depending on charity).
Typist: Rowland
Definition
n. a very poor or destitute person: one supported by charity or by some public provision:—fem. Pau′peress.—n. Pauperisā′tion.—v.t. Pau′perise to reduce to pauperism.—n. Pau′perism state of being a pauper.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are a pauper, implies unpleasant happenings for you. To see paupers, denotes that there will be a call upon your generosity. See Beggars and kindred words.
Checker: Terrance
Examples
- There's a obstinate pauper for you! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Combined with this consideration, there may have been some thought of the pauper lad now never to be mentioned. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If you please, mistress,' said a withered old female pauper, hideously ugly: putting her head in at the door, 'Old Sally is a-going fast. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It was he who sent me to England for you; it is he who is heir to your fine estate; and you—you are nothing but a pauper! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They themselves care only for making money, and are as indifferent as the pauper to the cultivation of virtue. Plato. The Republic.
- The pauper and the miser are as free as any in the Catholic Convents of Palestine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My breast is softer than the pauper-nurse's; death in my arms is peacefuller than among the pauper-wards. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I would as soon have been charged with a pauper brat out of a workhouse: but he was weak, naturally weak. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Yes, he said; nearly everybody is a pauper who is not a ruler. Plato. The Republic.
- No pauper stain--thanks to my firmness and resolution--ever rested on MY child. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It wasn't any impudence from any of them male paupers as--' 'No, no, love! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Well, I said, and in oligarchical States do you not find paupers? Plato. The Republic.
- What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I thought it was always usual to send them paupers in carts. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It is a eye I never knew to fail with paupers. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- You will remember that in the oligarchy were found two classes--rogues and paupers, whom we compared to drones with and without stings. Plato. The Republic.
- But I'd liefer sweep th' streets, if paupers had na' got hold on that work. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I and two paupers, Mrs. Mann! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- We put the sick paupers into open carts in the rainy weather, to prevent their taking cold. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But the number of workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers; and the board were in ecstasies. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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