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  • 91beggary — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The condition of being extremely poor: destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty, privation, want. See RICH. 2. The… …

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  • 92mendicity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being a beggar: beggary, mendicancy. See RICH …

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  • 93mendicities — men·dic·i·ty || men dɪsÉ™tɪ n. mendicancy, practice of begging; life of a beggar …

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  • 94mendicity — men·dic·i·ty || men dɪsÉ™tɪ n. mendicancy, practice of begging; life of a beggar …

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  • 95pauperism — pau·per·ism || pɔːpÉ™rɪzm n. beggary, mendicancy, state of relying on charity; destitution, poverty, indigence …

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  • 96mendicant — [ mɛndɪk(ə)nt] adjective given to begging. ↘of or denoting a religious order originally dependent on alms. noun a beggar. ↘a member of a mendicant order. Derivatives mendicancy noun mendicity noun Origin ME: from L. mendicant , mendicare beg ,… …

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  • 97beggary — n. Poverty, indigence, penury, destitution, want, distress, mendicancy, mendicity …

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  • 98mendicity — n. Beggary, mendicancy …

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  • 99poverty — n. 1. Indigence, penury, want, destitution, need, necessity, privation, neediness, distress, straitened circumstances. 2. Beggary, mendicancy, pauperism. 3. Need, lack, want, deficiency, scantiness, sparingness, meagreness, jejuneness. 4. Paucity …

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  • 100bankruptcy — n 1. insolvency, liquidation, indebtedness, straitened circumstances; indigence, poverty, penury, destitution, impecuniousness, beggary, pen nilessness, neediness; pauperism, pauperage, pauper dom, mendicancy, mendicity. 2. ruin, failure,… …

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