impoverishment

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
noun the act of making someone poor

From Anglo-Norman empoverissement, from the Old French verb empoverir. By surface analysis, impoverish + -ment.

An odd sense of impoverishment chilled him. — The Amazing Marriage — Complete, George Meredith
Their prosperity and their fatness mean the impoverishment of the country. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
And what had been the impoverishment of her soul under this grim discipline? — Robert Orange: Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange, John Oliver Hobbes

poverty, poorness

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