Pauper Definition

pôpər
paupers
noun
Any person who is extremely poor.
Webster's New World
A person who lives on charity, esp. on tax-supported charity.
Webster's New World

Someone who is unable to provide for his own support; a monetarily very poor person; an indigent person. Paupers are excused from paying court fees under the United States Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, so that they may avail themselves of equal access to the courts. See also in forma pauperis.

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Other Word Forms of Pauper

Noun

Singular:
pauper
Plural:
paupers

Origin of Pauper

  • From Latin poor pau-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin pauper (“poor").

    From Wiktionary

Pauper Sentence Examples

  • The prefect supervises the execution of the laws; has wide authority in regard to policing, public hygiene and relief of pauper children; has the nomination of various subordinate officials; and is in correspondence with the subordinate functionaries in his department, to whom he transmits the orders and instructions of the government.

  • France the pauper, as such, has no legal Tongking claim to help from the community, which Laos.

  • The average cost of maintaining an ordinary pauper was 5s.

  • In 1goo there was neither pauper nor workhouse in the country.

  • Antonio Galvao, who, after governing the Moluccas with rare success and integrity, had been offered the native throne of Ternate, went home in 1540, and died a pauper in a hospital, his famous treatise only appearing posthumously.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAU

Words Ending With

RERPER

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Words Starting With P and Ending With R

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