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beggardom
[ beg-er-duhm ]
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of beggardom1
Example Sentences
Great pride in his ancestry of beggardom.
A fair is the high mass which the beggars of all ranks and classes attend; when it is still a day or two off, all the footsoles that have nothing to walk upon but compassionate hearts, are converging towards the spot like so many radii, but on the morning of the fair-day itself the whole annual congress of beggardom and the column of cripples are fairly on the march.
Law revised the religious conception of charity, though he was himself so strangely devoid of social instinct that, like some of his successors, he linked the utmost earnestness in belief to that form of almsgiving which most effectually fosters beggardom.
She saw, girl though she was, that beggardom and vice were twins.
I cannot sufficiently deplore the progress of this spirit of beggardom, for it is acting and reacting in every direction all over the country.
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