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A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
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mendicancy
Word definitions for mendicancy in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) [syn: beggary , begging ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"state or condition of beggary," 1790, from mendicant + -cy . Also in this sense was mendicity (c.1400), from Old French mendicité "begging," from Latin mendicitatem (nominative mendicitas ) "beggary, mendicity."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mendicancy \Men"di*can*cy\, n. The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. --Burke.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act or state of being a mendicant
Usage examples of mendicancy.
It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
Thus hard bested, and at length reduced to mendicancy, he made his way, so as least discomfortably he might, to Rome, being minded to see whether Titus would remember him: and there, learning that Titus lived, and was much affected by all the Romans, and having found out his house, he took his stand in front of it, and watched until Titus came by.