Definitions for: Beggary

[n] a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
[n] a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"

Webster (1913) Definition: Beg"gar*y, n. [OE. beggerie. See Beggar, n.]
1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar;
mendicancy; extreme poverty.

2. Beggarly appearance. [R.]

The freedom and the beggary of the old studio.
--Thackeray.

Syn: Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy.

Beg"gar*y, a.
Beggarly. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

Synonyms: begging, indigence, mendicancy, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury

See Also: impoverishment, poorness, poverty, solicitation

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