Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beggarliness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: beg-gar-li-ness
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state or characteristic of being or resembling a beggar; destitution.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Angry duns, beggarliness of income, scarcity of the necessaries and luxuries which dignity of rank demanded, the indifference and slights of one's equals, and the ignoring of one's existence by exalted persons, were all hideous enough to Lord Mount Dunstan."
"And suddenly the fifty-cent tip previously bestowed upon the servitor seemed, to one unexpectedly fallen heir to the princely fortune then in P. Sybarite's pockets, the very nadir of beggarliness."
"While the ant had enough in store to last him the famine, the grasshopper was reduced to beggarliness!"

Etymology

Etymology tree English beggarly Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English beggarliness From beggarly + -ness.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does beggarliness mean?: The state or characteristic of being or resembling a beggar; destitution.
Where does beggarliness come from?: Etymology tree English beggarly Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English beggarliness From beggarly + -ness.

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