beggary

beggary
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • Beggary — Beg gar*y, n. [OE. beggerie. See {Beggar}, n.] 1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. [1913 Webster] 2. Beggarly appearance. [R.] [1913 Webster] The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. Thackeray.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Beggary — Beg gar*y, a. Beggarly. [Obs.] B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • beggary — index poverty, privation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • beggary — (n.) late 14c., from BEG (Cf. beg) + ARY (Cf. ary) …   Etymology dictionary

  • beggary — [beg′ər ē] n. pl. beggaries [ME beggerie < beggere,BEGGAR] 1. extreme poverty 2. the act of begging or state of being a beggar 3. beggars as a group …   English World dictionary

  • beggary — noun (U) formal the state of being very poor: The failure of their farm reduced them to beggary …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • beggary — noun Date: 14th century 1. poverty, penury 2. the class of beggars 3. the practice of begging …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • beggary — /beg euh ree/, n., pl. beggaries for 3. 1. a state or condition of utter poverty. 2. beggars collectively. 3. a place lived in or frequented by beggars. [1350 1400; ME beggerie. See BEGGAR, Y3] * * * …   Universalium

  • beggary — noun /ˈbɛɡəri/ a) The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty. b) The fact or action of begging …   Wiktionary

  • beggary — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The condition of being extremely poor: destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty, privation, want. See RICH. 2. The… …   English dictionary for students

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