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[ UK /bˈɛɡəɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being a beggar or mendicant
    they were reduced to mendicancy
  2. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

How To Use beggary In A Sentence

  • Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil. 
  • I didn't see any Western country with so many elements of social morbidity: poverty, beggary and starvation.
  • We condemn our own indigenous peoples to beggary.
  • Parlez-vous français, mesdemoiselles!" cried madame, and we filed out into the dusty street, at the corner of which sat another of our visible tokens of the coming of the season of flowers; a dirty, shriveled old Irishwoman, full of benedictions and beggary, who, all through the summer, sold "posies" to the passers-by. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
  • We were in the rags of beggary, prideless in the dust, and yet I was laughing heartily at some mumbled merry quip of the Lady Om when a shadow fell upon us. Chapter 15
  • The filmmakers bring us to the marketplace of Charikar, the town selected for the hospital, to meet the civilians: war widows reduced to beggary, young children employed as metalworkers.
  • They might turn us from this shelter, true; they might leave us nothing but charity or beggary, that is sure enough. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
  • We are too much afraid of what we call beggary," said Adela. The Bertrams
  • To see a once-thriving city reduced to beggary and emptiness, to live one day at a time in point of food and medicine, to see an old European order brutally and efficiently overturned, to notice the utterly casual way in which human life can be snuffed out, and to see war machines wheeling and diving in the overcast sky: such an education! The Catastrophist
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