beggary
adjective
1. (obsolete) beggarly
noun
1. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
Similar word(s): begging, mendicancy
Definition categories: communication, solicitation
2. the state of being a beggar or mendicant
Similar word(s): mendicancy, mendicity
Definition categories: state, indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury