beggardom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of beggardom
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Pity the warrior who is contented to crawl about in this beggardom of rules, which are too bad for genius, over which it can set itself superior, over which it can perchance make merry!
From On War — Volume 1 by Colonel J. J. Graham
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 is a metropolis of beggardom, a mendicant's Mecca, a citadel of Jules Richepin's cherished Gueux.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards
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
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