Beggary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈbɛɡəɹi/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Beggary is a noun meaning The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty.
Meaning
The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty.
More Meanings
- The fact or action of begging.
- Beggarly appearance.
- (obsolete) beggarly
Example Sentences
There was, clearly, no future for him but beggary and a death in the workhouse.
Happily some haplesse man hath conscience, And for his conscience lives in beggary.
[…] perhaps he would abandon beggary when there was no poor fool about to beg from.
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary.
Word Forms
- beggaries
Synonyms for beggary
Depending on context, synonyms include mendicancy, begging.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mendicancy, begging, beggarhood, beggarliness, beggingness, mendicity.
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