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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for beggary:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
beggary
    n 1: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street
         by an apparently penniless person) [syn: beggary,
         begging, mendicancy]
    2: the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced
       to mendicancy" [syn: beggary, mendicancy, mendicity]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, n. [OE. beggerie. See Beggar, n.]
   1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar;
      mendicancy; extreme poverty.
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   2. Beggarly appearance. [R.]
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            The freedom and the beggary of the old studio.
                                                  --Thackeray.
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   Syn: Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Beggary \Beg"gar*y\, a.
   Beggarly. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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