beguin

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Definition von beguin im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

One who makes it his business to ask alms

To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself

The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars

One who is dependent upon others for support; a contemptuous or sarcastic use

The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness

One who assumes in argument what he does not prove

To cause to seem very poor and inadequate

Beggary

In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean

Etymologie

() Colloquial French béguin (“bonnet”). The verb s’embéguiner ‘to wear a bonnet’ came to mean ‘to have a crush on someone’. The word itself came from béguine ‘beguine’ (lay nuns who typically wore such bonnets).