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BEGGARY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
Synonyms:
beggary; begging; mendicancy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("beggary" is a kind of...):
solicitation (an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status)
Derivation:
beg (call upon in supplication; entreat)
beg (make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently)
beg (ask to obtain free)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of being a beggar or mendicant
Example:
they were reduced to mendicancy
Synonyms:
beggary; mendicancy; mendicity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("beggary" is a kind of...):
indigence; need; pauperism; pauperization; penury (a state of extreme poverty or destitution)
