pauperize

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Yet Lederberg's current interests extend into space in a way that pauperizes science fiction.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a general rule, it pauperizes the people who receive.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various

Charity too often pauperizes and degrades; social service encourages self-help and self-expression in the vital social relations.

From Problems in American Democracy by Williamson, Thames Ross

Dickens did not know that indiscriminate almsgiving pauperizes humanity, and never did he supply the world a glimpse of a man like Robert Owen, whose charity was something more than palliation.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Hubbard, Elbert

Properly administered charity is a helpful means of temporary relief, but if it becomes permanent it pauperizes.

From Society Its Origin and Development by Rowe, Henry Kalloch