[f. BEGGARLY + -NESS.] Beggarly quality or condition.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 97 b. His slouenrie and beggerlynesse of liuyng.
1650. T. Goodwin, Wks. (1862), IV. 227. The beggarliness of these rudiments.
1804. Southey, in Ann. Rev., II. 67. Poverty of imagination … beggarliness of langunge.
1816. J. Scott, Vis. Paris, 148. An apparent beggarliness as to real comforts.
