Beggary
[begәri]
Definition
(noun.) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person).
(noun.) the state of being a beggar or mendicant; 'they were reduced to mendicancy'.
Editor: Vlad--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.
(n.) Beggarly appearance.
(a.) Beggarly.
Edited by Darrell
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Poverty, indigence, penury, destitution, want, distress, mendicancy, mendicity.
Editor: Nicolas
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Want, penury, destitution, indigence, mendicancy
ANT:Affluence, riches, abundance, plenty
Typist: Tim
Examples
- And in oligarchical States, from the general spread of carelessness and extravagance, men of good family have often been reduced to beggary? Plato. The Republic.
- A small point of doctrine might mean affluence or beggary to a man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I answered, that his excellency's prudence, quality, and fortune, had exempted him from those defects, which folly and beggary had produced in others. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Families, bred in opulence and luxury, were reduced to beggary. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What is an immense fortune for a private gentleman is beggary for a prince. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He menaced rebellion in the name of his counthry, vented bitter hatred against English rule; they spoke of rags, beggary, and pestilence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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