Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or state of being a beggar; beggars collectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being a
beggar . - noun The class of beggars generally.
Etymologies
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Examples
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_bh [= a] ikshyacaryam_ 'beggarhood' (before the forest-hermit and after the householder).
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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The condition of peasant children, their sorrows and joys, their sports and bickerings -- the coarse insolence of the richer, the timid dispiritment of the needy, all stood in lively remembrance before his fancy, which liked to go back into that first and only period of his freedom, though, perhaps, also of his beggarhood.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 Various
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From this date onwards the confederates were known as "les gueux," and they adopted a coarse grey dress with the symbols of beggarhood -- the wallet and the bowl -- worn as the _insignia_ of their league.
History of Holland George Edmundson 1889
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Never was a form of rascally beggarhood more complete.
A passionate pilgrim 1875
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