Beggary

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, a.
     Beggarly. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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