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beggary

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɛɡəɹi/Part of speech nounSorted abeggryStarts with BEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

Word origin

From beggar + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • Happily some haplesse man hath conscience, And for his conscience lives in beggary.
  • Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary.
  • The matter to be decided involved, in addition to the personal risks of life and liberty, the probable forfeiture of an immense estate, and the beggary, in consequence, of an only and beloved daughter.

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