• Immiseration

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃ(É™)n/

    Origin

    From - + misery + -.

    Full definition of immiseration

    Noun

    immiseration

    (plural immiserations)
    1. The act of making miserable, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment.
      • 2011, Jacqueline Stevens, States Without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals, p. 23: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.
      • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 627:Unimaginable amounts of suffering have been caused by tyrants who callously presided over the immiseration of their peoples or launched destructive wars of conquest.
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