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单词 beggary
释义 beg·gary
\ˈbegərē, ˈbāg-, -gəri\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English beggarie, from beggare beggar + -ie -y
1. : the quality or state of being impoverished : penury
 < the beggary to which the … tribesmen have been reduced — M.J.Herskovits >
2. : the class or occupation of beggars
3. : the act of begging especially as a livelihood : mendicancy
 < suffered the bitterest privation, and were even … threatened with beggary — H.E.Barnes & H.P.Becker >
4. : baseness, contemptibleness
 < the beggary of his lies >
5. : mean impoverished appearance : disreputableness
 < shabby and unshaven almost to the point of beggary — Edmund Wilson >
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