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Definition of Beggaring
1. beggar [v] - See also: beggar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beggaring
Literary usage of Beggaring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays in Philosophical Criticism by ed Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison, Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (1883)
"No one denies nowadays that honest trading means mutual gain to the traders; it
is neither beggaring my neighbour nor beggaring myself, but serving both. ..."
2. Utopia: And History of King Richard III by Thomas More (1834)
"This, indeed, is the only instance of their frugality; for in all other things
they are prodigal, even to the beggaring of themselves. ..."
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