beggardom

[ beg-er-duhm ]

noun

1. beggary ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of beggardom¹

First recorded in 1880–85; beggar + -dom

Example Sentences

Great pride in his ancestry of beggardom.

From Project Gutenberg

A fair is the high mass which the beggars of all ranks and classes attend; when it is still a day or two off, all the footsoles that have nothing to walk upon but compassionate hearts, are converging towards the spot like so many radii, but on the morning of the fair-day itself the whole annual congress of beggardom and the column of cripples are fairly on the march.

From Project Gutenberg

Law revised the religious conception of charity, though he was himself so strangely devoid of social instinct that, like some of his successors, he linked the utmost earnestness in belief to that form of almsgiving which most effectually fosters beggardom.

From Project Gutenberg

Off he would march, to continue his mendicant rounds, with the volume slipped into the pocket of his ragged coat; and although he would sometimes keep it quite a while, yet it came always back again at last, not much the worse for its travels into beggardom.

From Project Gutenberg

She saw, girl though she was, that beggardom and vice were twins.

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