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beggaries

beggaries is the plural of beggary.

Meaning of beggary

Noun

beggary (countable and uncountable, plural beggaries)

  1. The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty.
    • Happily some haplesse man hath conscience,
      And for his conscience lives in beggary.c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published...
  2. The fact or action of begging.
    • […] the landlady […] ushered them into a large garret where twenty or thirty people of all ages and both sexes lay and dozed away the day, choosing the evening and night for their trades of beggary, thieving, or prostitution.1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 38, in Mary Barton
  3. Beggarly appearance.
    • […] she looked back to the freedom and the beggary of the old studio in Soho with so much regret, that everybody, herself included, fancied she was consumed with grief for her father.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

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Questions about beggaries

What is beggaries the plural of?
Beggaries is the plural of beggary.

Words near beggaries in the dictionary

  1. beggaresses
  2. beggarest
  3. beggareth
  4. beggarhood
  5. beggarhoods
  6. beggaries
  7. beggaring
  8. beggaring belief
  9. beggaring description
  10. beggaring the question
  11. beggarism

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