nonable-bodied

English

Adjective

nonable-bodied (comparative more nonable-bodied, superlative most nonable-bodied)

1. Alternative form of non-able-bodied
   • 1992, Peter Conrad, Joseph W. Schneider, Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness, page 44:

     As the importance of a competent labor force increased, it became increasingly necessary to separate the able-bodied poor from the nonable-bodied.

   • 2005, Helen O'Grady, Woman's Relationship with Herself: Gender, Foucault and Therapy:

     When individuals are positioned beyond "the norm", what consitutes a socially valued identity frequently cclashes with experiences of the self — for example, as black, as indigenous, as non-Anglo, as working class, as lesbian/gay/bi- or transsexual, as nonable-bodied, as a single parent, as ill,as fat, and so forth.

   • 2014, Linwood H. Cousins, Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity:

     The distribution of food; the provision of security, shelter, education, child care, and medical care; indigenous interventions for mental and social ills and so forth from prehistory to the well-documented Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1601, which codified services for the able-bodied and nonable-bodied poor,are precursors and provided a template for human services in the early United States.