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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, a.
Beggarly. [Obs.] --B. Jonson
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, n. [OE. beggerie See {Beggar}, n.]
1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar;
mendicancy; extreme poverty.
2. Beggarly appearance. [R.]
The freedom and the beggary of the old studio.
--Thackeray.
Syn: Indigence; want penury; mendicancy.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
beggary
n : a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street
by an apparently penniless person) [syn: {begging}, {mendicancy}]
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