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Definition of Beggarliness
1. n. The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
Definition of Beggarliness
1. Noun. (rare) The state or characteristic of being or resembling a beggar; destitution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beggarliness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beggarliness
Literary usage of Beggarliness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1908)
"... and undue beggarliness being equally avoided. Still, the great charm of the
piece is a certain nameless grace of choice, ..."
2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"But the strength of this argument lies partly in the ignorance of Zeno, that
great champion of necessity, and the beggarliness of his cause, which admitted ..."
3. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1880)
"I have quoted the authority of Smollett for the beggarliness of the French
peasantry, because the evidence he gives was taken in the year during which Smith ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1847)
"... and especially in the military and naval service of his country, should
recollect the effect of this beggarliness on the mind of strangers. ..."
5. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"Doth not this show your beggarliness, and that you are of the seed that is begging
bread ? when the scriptures saith,' The righteous are not forsaken, ..."
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