beguard

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Definition of beguard in English English dictionary

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

Beggary

One who assumes in argument what he does not prove

Called also Beguins

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

One who makes it his business to ask alms

The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness

To cause to seem very poor and inadequate

They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X

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

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

One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines

in 1650