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beggarliness

beggarliness noun: the state or characteristic of being or resembling a beggar; destitution.

Noun

beggarliness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The state or characteristic of being or resembling a beggar; destitution.
    • Angry duns, beggarliness of income, scarcity of the necessaries and luxuries which dignity of rank demanded, the indifference and slights of one's equals, and the ignoring of one's existence by exalted persons, were all hideous enough to Lord Mount Dunstan.1906, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 18, in The Shuttle
    • And suddenly the fifty-cent tip previously bestowed upon the servitor seemed, to one unexpectedly fallen heir to the princely fortune then in P. Sybarite's pockets, the very nadir of beggarliness.1913, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 8, in The Day of Days

Origin of beggarliness

From beggarly + -ness.

Questions about beggarliness

What does beggarliness mean?
Beggarliness means the state or characteristic of being or resembling a beggar; destitution.
What part of speech is beggarliness?
Beggarliness is a noun.

Words near beggarliness in the dictionary

  1. beggarizes
  2. beggarizing
  3. beggarlier
  4. beggarliest
  5. beggarlike
  6. beggarliness
  7. beggarly
  8. beggarman
  9. beggarmen
  10. beggars
  11. beggars belief

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