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Beggary

Beggary Meaning & Definition
Beggary Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Beggary?

[n] a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
[n] a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Beggary: begging | indigence | mendicancy | need | pauperism | pauperization | penury

Related Terms | Find terms related to Beggary: absence | bare cupboard | bare subsistence | beggarliness | begging | bumming | cadging | defectiveness | deficiency | deficit | deprivation | destitution | drought | empty purse | famine | grinding poverty | gripe | hand-to-mouth existence | homelessness | impecuniousness | imperfection | impoverishment | incompleteness | indigence | lack | mendicancy | mendicity | moneylessness | mooching | necessitousness | necessity | need | neediness | omission | panhandling | pauperism | pauperization | penury | pinch | privation | scrounging | shortage | shortcoming | shortfall | starvation | want | wantage

See Also | impoverishment | poorness | poverty | solicitation

Beggary In Webster's Dictionary

\Beg"gar*y\, n. [OE. beggerie. See {Beggar}, n.] 1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. 2. Beggarly appearance. [R.] The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. --Thackeray. Syn: Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy.
\Beg"gar*y\, a. Beggarly. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

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