Lexic.us

Definition of Beggary

1. Noun. A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person).

2. Noun. The state of being a beggar or mendicant. "They were reduced to mendicancy"

Definition of Beggary

1. n. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.

2. a. Beggarly.

Definition of Beggary

1. Noun. The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty. ¹

2. Noun. The fact or action of begging. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beggary

1. extreme poverty [n -GARIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beggary

beggarlike beggarliness beggarlinesses beggarly beggarman beggarmen beggars beggars can't be choosers beggarticks beggarware

beggarweed beggarweeds beggarwise beggarwoman beggarwomen beggary (current term) begge begged begged off beggestere

beggesteres beggiatoaceae beggiatoales begging begging off begging the question beggingly beggingness beggings beghard

Literary usage of Beggary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"Or look at a paper like the Querist of Berkeley and remark how the antithesis of wealth and poverty, industry and beggary pervades it. ..."

2. English Farming Past & Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1917)
"War taxation : peace and beggary ; slow recovery of agriculture ; the harvest of 1813 ; reality and extent of distress ; the fall of prices ; bankruptcies ..."

3. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including by Isabella Lucy Bird (1888)
"... Hamlet -Crowded Dwellings- Riding a Cow-" Drunk and Disorderly "-An Enforced Rest— Local Discouragements-Heavy Loads-Absence of beggary-Slow Travelling. ..."

4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... that though beauty itself be a great motive, and give an excellent lustre in sordibus, in beggary, as a jewel on a dunghill will shine and cast his rays ..."

5. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... 'Jims" and Indolent "Tonys" — Unblushing beggary — Effect of Incident and Adventure — An Ill-Fated Expedition — An Unsolved Mystery — The Place of Lost ..."

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