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

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beggardom

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

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

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

From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by James Runciman

It was a happy, care-free, gay, and kindly beggardom that he painted, with nothing in it to sadden the heart.

From Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

It was like a pantomime, to come suddenly out of beggardom into this orderly comfort.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

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

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women by Elbert Hubbard