different between immiseration vs immiserate

English

Etymology

From im- +? miser(y) +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?z???e??(?)n/

Noun

immiseration (countable and uncountable, plural immiserations)

1. The process of making miserable, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment.
   • 2011, Jacqueline Stevens, States Without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals, p. 23:

     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.

   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 627:

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

Translations

English

Etymology

Back-formation from immiseration.

Verb

immiserate (third-person singular simple present immiserates, present participle immiserating, simple past and past participle immiserated)

1. (transitive) To impoverish or sink into misery.
   • 1971 Nov. 28, Robert L. Heilbroner, "Phase II of the Capitalist System," New York Times (retrieved 8 Dec 2016):

     By far the most powerful dynamic conception of capitalism as a system wracked by unavoidable change is the classic Marxian view in which a working class is first immiserated, then disciplined, finally goaded beyond endurance by a system that systematically exploits and deceives it.

Related terms

• immiseration

Translations

See also

• impoverish