impoverishment
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Merkin paints a nightmarish picture of “strange withholdings — impoverishments, even — that can occur within a landscape of perceived privilege.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2017
And, therefore, all appeals for justice, or applications for favour or preferment, to another country are so many grievous impoverishments.
From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert
And therefore all appeals for justice, or applications for favour or preferment, to another country, are so many grievous impoverishments.
From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)
And therefore all appeals for justice, or applications, for favour or preferment to another country, are so many grievous impoverishments.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Scott, Temple