Beggary

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  • noun. Extreme poverty; penury.
  • noun. The state or condition of being a beggar.
  • noun. Beggars considered as a group.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Beggarly; poor; mean.
  • 2. Full of weeds.
  • noun. The state of a beggar; a condition of extreme indigence.
  • noun. The act or practice of begging; the occupation of a beggar; begging.
  • noun. Beggars collectively; beggardom; beggarhood.
  • noun. A state of bareness or deficiency.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Beggarly.
  • noun. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.
  • noun. Beggarly appearance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty.
  • noun. The fact or action of begging.
  • adjective. beggarly
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
  • noun. the state of being a beggar or mendicant
  • Word Usage
    ""We are too much afraid of what we call beggary," said Adela."
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