Beggary synonyms

bĕg'ə-rē

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destitution
An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support.
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impecuniosity
The state of being impecunious; impecuniousness
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impecuniousness
The property of being impecunious.
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impoverishment
The state of being impoverished.
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indigence
The condition of being indigent
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need
Necessity; obligation:
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neediness
The state of being needy
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pennilessness
The state or quality of being penniless.
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penuriousness
The quality of being penurious.
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penury
Penury is defined as extreme poverty or lacking basic necessities.
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poverty
Poverty is the state of being poor, having little money or being in need of a specific quality.
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privation
Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life:
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want
The condition or quality of lacking something usual or necessary:
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mendicancy
The act or state of being a mendicant
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mendicity
The state of being a beggar; mendicancy or beggary
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rich (related)
A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
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begging
a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
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necessitousness
(Rare) The state or condition of being necessary or essential; necessity.
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Find another word for beggary. In this page you can discover 18 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for beggary, like: destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury and poverty.
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Beggary Sentence Examples

  • Thus, after two hundred and fifty years, the sway of the Malatesta came to an end, and Pandolfo was reduced to beggary.

  • As secretary to the conclave which assembled in the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore at Venice, Consalvi had the difficult task of corresponding with the various governments and organizing the assembly at a time when the Revolution had confused all issues and reduced the individual cardinals to beggary.

  • 2 No wonder that a stream of emigration set towards the East, such as would in modern times flow towards a newly discovered gold-field - a stream carrying in its turbid waters much refuse, tramps and bankrupts, camp-followers and hucksters, fugitive monks and escaped villeins, and marked by the same motley grouping, the same fever of life, the same alternations of affluence and beggary, which mark the rush for a gold-field to-day.

  • The whole burden of taxation rested on their shoulders, and so ground down were they by ingeniously multiplied exactions, that thousands of them were reduced to literal beggary.

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