beggardom

American  

[beg-er-duhm] / ˈbɛg ər dəm /

noun

1. beggary.

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Etymology

Origin of beggardom

First recorded in 1880–85; beggar + -dom

Example Sentences

Great pride in his ancestry of beggardom.

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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.

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

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I cannot sufficiently deplore the progress of this spirit of beggardom, for it is acting and reacting in every direction all over the country.

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Now it is over; I enter the nursery; I am going to have in my house the weaning of the future beggardom of England.

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