beggary
- n a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
- n the state of being a beggar or mendicant
- In Tokyo, where beggary had once been rare, police seized 232 vagrants in Ueno Park.
- A weak democratic government fails to maintain order, and is vilified by nationalists furious at the country's fall from world power to beggary.
- In Hamburg (reported the current issue of The World's Health) and in other Rhineland and southern German cities, a shrewd new system of handling beggary has been evolved.