beggery

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Noun

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beggery (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of beggary.
    • 1648, Thomas Warmstry (Dean of Worcester), Suspiria Ecclesiae et Reipublicae Anglicanae (page 15)
      Nor the lice of beggery and bondage