immiserations

Noun

immiseration (countable and uncountable, plural immiserations)

1. Synonym of immiserization (“the process of making miserable or poor, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment, pauperization”).
   • 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 1861.2010, Jacqueline Stevens, “Introduction”, in States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals, New York, N.Y.; Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 23

   Synonyms:

   immiserization