Mendicancy

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The condition of being a mendicant; the state of beggary, or the act of begging.
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  • noun. The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.
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  • noun. The act or state of being a mendicant
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  • noun. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
  • noun. the state of being a beggar or mendicant
    • Word Usage
    "To beg for votes, as if they were alms or broken victuals, is a form of mendicancy which is incompatible with common self-respect, and yet it is a self-abasement which thirty years ago custom imperatively demanded."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    indigence  need  pauperism  pauperization  penury  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abstemiousness  amateurishness  apostacy  awaiteth  beggarman  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bare cupboard  bare subsistence  beggarliness  beggary  beggary  
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