Obs. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The condition of a beggar, indigence, beggary.
1382. Wyclif, Prov. xxiv. 34. Beggingnesse [1388 beggerie] as a man armyd. Ibid. (c. 1384), Sel. Wks. (1871), III. 371. Gif not to me beggyng or beggyngnesse.
