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Definition of poorhouse in English: poorhousenoun ˈpɔːhaʊsˈpʊəhaʊs British another term for workhouse Example sentencesExamples - But what of the mothers, women imprisoned and committed to poorhouses, punished for their wanton lusts rather than neglect of children?
- Pop regularly trumpeted the strains of British rule: evictions, poorhouses, famine.
- Some housing projects would have to remain as de facto poorhouses for the most dysfunctional.
- In contrast, 19th century poorhouses burst at the seams, and their regimes became more totalitarian in response.
- And the reality was, that without some kind of financial support, the widow and the children would end up in the poorhouse, and that was the basis for the legislation.
- Similarly, in 1795 J M Good, a physician who carried out a painstaking examination of diseases of prisons and poorhouses, wrote, ‘No medicine is much more advantageous than the daily changing of linen.’
- For example, what were these poorhouses like, why did these towns build poor houses, did the towns differentiate between poorhouses and workhouses, and why for the most part, were these institutions temporary?
- Among these visitors were people from the poorhouse, and the pauper, who was ‘deficient in intellect,’ but who Thoreau thought to be in better shape than many people who were much smarter, because he knew and told the truth.
- Goodwin says in her own family tree she discovered a great-aunt whose place of birth was the Govan poorhouse, and whose mother's occupation was listed as pauper.
- In fact, Robert E. Cray argues in his book on poor relief in New York that many rural towns erected workhouses and poorhouses before the American Revolution.
- A second way of aiding the poor, which developed in many towns especially from the 1750's onward, was to build poorhouses, workhouses, or town farms where people would work for the town for their support.
- By 1878 it had 2,700 sisters, and was the main provider of housing for the old outside hospitals and poorhouses.
- The difference between poorhouses and workhouses in Bridgewater is more ambiguous.
- The poorhouses and the debtors' prisons have long since closed.
- And if you didn't pay the bills it was the poorhouse, or transportation to Australia, or hanging, or all three…
- Desperately seeking a change of fortune, the Cardans moved to Milan, but here they fared even worse and they had to ignominiously enter the poorhouse.
- The creation of an almshouse or a poorhouse was not necessarily due to any particular function of the town, but may have been influenced by a particularly powerful selectmen.
- The Collins girls were from Tyringham and the Paynes, who were born in Connecticut, may have been indentured from the poorhouse of Norwalk or Bridgeport as well.
- Whether you're getting by on £300, £3,000 or £300,000 a month, spending more than you rake in will put you in the poorhouse.
- It is conceivable that Plymouth officials housed paupers in the poorhouses of one of the neighboring towns, as permitted by the 1774 statute.
Definition of poorhouse in US English: poorhousenoun British An institution where paupers were maintained with public funds. Example sentencesExamples - But what of the mothers, women imprisoned and committed to poorhouses, punished for their wanton lusts rather than neglect of children?
- And if you didn't pay the bills it was the poorhouse, or transportation to Australia, or hanging, or all three…
- The difference between poorhouses and workhouses in Bridgewater is more ambiguous.
- The Collins girls were from Tyringham and the Paynes, who were born in Connecticut, may have been indentured from the poorhouse of Norwalk or Bridgeport as well.
- For example, what were these poorhouses like, why did these towns build poor houses, did the towns differentiate between poorhouses and workhouses, and why for the most part, were these institutions temporary?
- Some housing projects would have to remain as de facto poorhouses for the most dysfunctional.
- Desperately seeking a change of fortune, the Cardans moved to Milan, but here they fared even worse and they had to ignominiously enter the poorhouse.
- Among these visitors were people from the poorhouse, and the pauper, who was ‘deficient in intellect,’ but who Thoreau thought to be in better shape than many people who were much smarter, because he knew and told the truth.
- The creation of an almshouse or a poorhouse was not necessarily due to any particular function of the town, but may have been influenced by a particularly powerful selectmen.
- And the reality was, that without some kind of financial support, the widow and the children would end up in the poorhouse, and that was the basis for the legislation.
- Pop regularly trumpeted the strains of British rule: evictions, poorhouses, famine.
- Similarly, in 1795 J M Good, a physician who carried out a painstaking examination of diseases of prisons and poorhouses, wrote, ‘No medicine is much more advantageous than the daily changing of linen.’
- It is conceivable that Plymouth officials housed paupers in the poorhouses of one of the neighboring towns, as permitted by the 1774 statute.
- In fact, Robert E. Cray argues in his book on poor relief in New York that many rural towns erected workhouses and poorhouses before the American Revolution.
- In contrast, 19th century poorhouses burst at the seams, and their regimes became more totalitarian in response.
- The poorhouses and the debtors' prisons have long since closed.
- Whether you're getting by on £300, £3,000 or £300,000 a month, spending more than you rake in will put you in the poorhouse.
- Goodwin says in her own family tree she discovered a great-aunt whose place of birth was the Govan poorhouse, and whose mother's occupation was listed as pauper.
- A second way of aiding the poor, which developed in many towns especially from the 1750's onward, was to build poorhouses, workhouses, or town farms where people would work for the town for their support.
- By 1878 it had 2,700 sisters, and was the main provider of housing for the old outside hospitals and poorhouses.
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