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UK
/bˈɛɡəɹi/
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NOUN
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the state of being a beggar or mendicant
they were reduced to mendicancy - a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
How To Use beggary In A Sentence
- Every effort I made to escape beggary was in the end frustrated by Chapter 15
- In his diary he describes how he ‘saw various forms of squalor, disease, and deformity-all manner of importunate beggary.’
- -- for these fellows do not only not know or care for the observance of the city ordinance, which certainly is binding on them, but, relying on a fellow-feeling of vulgarity with the mob, resist all attempts made to remove them from the exercise of their most fearful beggary, which is not even tolerated any longer at Naples. Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
- Through the department of moral censorship, provision has been made for the eradication of beggary.
- Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.
- Irishwoman, full of benedictions and beggary, who, all through the summer, sold "posies" to the passers-by. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls
- You remind the mechanic that the man in the landau has been the ruin of thousands and you mention people whom he himself knows, people in various grades of life, widows and orphans amongst them, whose little all has been dissipated, and whom he has reduced to beggary by inducing them to become sharers in his delusive schemes. The Romany Rye
- War widows were reduced to beggary and young children employed as metalworkers.
- Idleness is the key of beggary.
- A scheme on prevention of child beggary is one of the new projects.