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beggary

noun
/ˈbɛɡəɹi/

Etymology

From beggar + -y.

  1. derived from beggaert
  2. derived from begart
  3. derived from beggen — “to beg”
  4. inherited from beggere
  5. formed as beggary — “beggar + -y”

Definitions

  1. The state of a beggar

    The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty.

    • Happily some haplesse man hath conscience, And for his conscience lives in beggary.
    • 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.

  2. The fact or action of begging.

    • […] the landlady […] ushered them into a large garret where twenty or thirty people of all ages and both sexes lay and dozed away the day, choosing the evening and night for their trades of beggary, thieving, or prostitution.
    • […] perhaps he would abandon beggary when there was no poor fool about to beg from.

  3. Beggarly appearance.

    • […] she looked back to the freedom and the beggary of the old studio in Soho with so much regret, that everybody, herself included, fancied she was consumed with grief for her father.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. beggarly

      • beggary counterfeits

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA