immiseration

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

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