beggary
noun
1 beggary
A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person).
synonyms: begging, mendicancy.
Dutch: bedelarij, gebedel
Polish: żebranina
2 beggary
The state of being a beggar or mendicant.
synonyms: mendicancy, mendicity.
Roget 804:
poverty,
indigence,
penury,
pauperism,
destitution,
want;
need,
neediness;
lack,
necessity,
privation,
distress,
difficulties,
wolf at the door.
bad circumstances,
poor circumstances,
need circumstances,
embarrassed circumstances,
reduced circumstances,
straightened circumstances;
slender means,
narrow means;
straits;
hand to mouth existence,
res angusta domi [Lat.],
low water,
impecuniosity.
beggary;
mendicancy,
mendicity†;
broken fortune,
loss of fortune;
insolvency
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
empty pocket,
empty purse;
light purse;
beggarly account of empty boxes.
[poor people]
poor man,
pauper,
mendicant,
mumper†,
beggar,
starveling;
pauvre diable [Fr.];
fakir†,
schnorrer†;
homeless person.
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Dutch: bedelarij
Moby thesaurus: absence, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, begging, bumming, cadging, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, destitution, drought, empty purse, famine, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness, imperfection, impoverishment, incompleteness, indigence, lack, mendicancy, mendicity, moneylessness, mooching, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, omission, panhandling, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, scrounging, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, starvation, want, wantage ... show more.
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