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Beggary Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ary

Beggary has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

the state of being a beggar or mendicant

"they were reduced to mendicancy"

3

The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty.