beggary
- noun
- /ˈbɛɡəri/
:
mendicidad
- Someday you and I will write a book on the truth of beggary.
- reduced to beggary
- lives by beggary
Examples
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The documentary highlighted the struggles of those who are trapped in beggary with no way out.
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Perhaps I was not reduced to beggary yet.
Fiction book (1990) -
Can you think how he may have fallen into beggary?
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You know that I could publish this manuscript of his and overnight his sad broken beggary would end.
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What beggary is this?
Fiction book (1991) -
Many people in the city live in beggary and often rely on charitable donations for food.
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After losing his job, he found himself in a state of beggary, forced to ask strangers for help.
Synonyms
564
2.1
A situation when people lack basic things such as food or shelter
550
2.0
A situation of having very little money and few things
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7.9
A situation when someone has no money, home, or way to live
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9.3
A lack of basic things needed to live, like food or shelter
2
9.7
A situation with almost no money and few basic things needed to live
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2.5
A situation when someone has little money and few belongings
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6.8
A situation when someone has no money
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9.9
A state of being very poor with almost nothing
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4.6
Being very poor and not having basic things like food and shelter
To ask people for money or food in public because you have none
A situation where people ask strangers for money because they have none
A lack of money for basic needs like food and shelter
A state of having little or no money
A state of needing basic things like food or shelter
Antonyms
How Poor
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word beggary comes from the simple verb beg ('to ask for money or food') plus the ending -y, which turns an action into a state. So beggary means the state of having to beg, being very poor and asking others for help.