Meaning of BEGGARY
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | begging, indigence, mendicancy, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury |
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| | See Also: | | impoverishment, poorness, poverty, solicitation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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