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Meaning of immiseration | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
ɪmɪzəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n

Definitions

Synonym of immiserization (“the process of making miserable or poor, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment, pauperization”).

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Deutsch Verelendung
Suomi kurjistus

Examples

“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.”
“Unimaginable amounts of suffering have been caused by tyrants who callously presided over the immiseration of their peoples or launched destructive wars of conquest.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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