Sekirov Dictionary

beggary

/ˈbɛɡəɹi/

noun 3
adjective 1
forms 3

noun3

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The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty.
- Happily some haplesse man hath conscience, And for his conscience lives in beggary. — 1589
•
The fact or action of begging.
- […] perhaps he would abandon beggary when there was no poor fool about to beg from. — 1938
•
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. — 1847

adjective1

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(no longer used) beggarly
- early 1600s, Beaumont and Fletcher (attributed), The Nice Valour, Act V, Scene 3, in The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher, London: J. & R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750, Volume 10, p. 359, This is Love’s beggary right, that now is ours, When Ladies love, and cannot shew their Powers.

forms

beggaries · more beggary · most beggary

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