Usually means: Extreme poverty; lack of means.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word beggary:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. beggary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. beggary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beggary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beggary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beggary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beggary, beggary: Wordnik
  7. beggary: Wiktionary
  8. beggary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. beggary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. beggary: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Beggary, beggary: Dictionary.com
  12. Beggary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Beggary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. beggary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. beggary: Rhymezone
  16. Beggary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. beggary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. beggary: Free Dictionary
  19. beggary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. beggary: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beggary: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beggary: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See beggaries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (beggary)

noun:  The state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty.
noun:  The fact or action of begging.
noun:  Beggarly appearance.
adjective:  (obsolete) beggarly

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