beggardom

[ beg-er-duhm ]

noun

beggary (def. 2).

Origin of beggardom

¹

First recorded in 1880–85; beggar + -dom

Words Nearby beggardom

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How to use beggardom in a sentence

It is the potter's field, the lazar-house, the beggardom, of horse-flesh.
The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky | James Lane Allen
Now it is over; I enter the nursery; I am going to have in my house the weaning of the future beggardom of England.
The Man Who Laughs | Victor Hugo
She saw, girl though she was, that beggardom and vice were twins.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14 | Elbert Hubbard

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