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Mendicancy

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act or state of being a mendicant

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The condition of being a mendicant; the state of beggary, or the act of begging.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

n. 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

solicitation need pauperization indigence pauperism

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

beggary begging

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

uncleanliness abstemiousness monasticism metamagnetism depopulation