Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, n. [OE. beggerie. See Beggar, n.]
1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar;
mendicancy; extreme poverty.
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2. Beggarly appearance. [R.]
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The freedom and the beggary of the old studio.
--Thackeray.
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Syn: Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, a.
Beggarly. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
beggary
n 1: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street
by an apparently penniless person) [syn: begging, mendicancy]
2: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
homeless" [syn: indigence, need, penury, pauperism,
pauperization]
WordNet (r) 2.0
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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