[f. as prec. + -ISM.] Practice characteristic of a beggar; professional beggary; beggarliness; extreme poverty.
1636. R. James, Iter Lanc. (1845), Introd. 85. He must leave his humility and the beggarism of a set speech.
1818. Lyell, Life, etc. I. iv. 106. A man who rose … from beggarism to enormous affluence.
1865. Times, 4 Feb., 5/4. A good many instances of this sturdy beggarism have come under my notice.
