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Beggary
/bˈɛɡəɹi/
/bˈɛɡɚɹi/
Beggary
[NOUN]1
a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
Examples
1. The politician had risen to power on the back of his family's name and reputation, but when it came time to lead, he was found wanting - indeed, gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.
2. Meanwhile the dispossessed, deprived of their opportunity to grow or hunt their own food, turned to beggary and theft, and to London.
3. If you play in private, or at subscription houses you devote yourself to inevitable destruction, and your whole family to beggary.
4. He rushes to some secret hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the pockets to make sure of the coat’s sinking.
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