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Mendicity

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Noun

1. beggary, mendicancy, mendicity

the state of being a beggar or mendicant

Example Sentences:
'they were reduced to mendicancy'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Mendicity

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adjective
1. 
begging
2. 
(of a member of a religious order) dependent on alms for sustenance
mendicant friars
3. 
characteristic of a beggar
noun
4. 
a mendicant friar
5.  a less common word for beggar

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Mendicity

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adjective
1. 
asking for alms; begging
2. 
of or characteristic of a beggar
3. 
designating or of any of various religious orders whose members originally held no personal or community property, living mostly on alms
noun
4. 
a beggar; person who begs for alms
5. 
a mendicant friar

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Mendicity

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adj.
1. Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging.
2. Of or relating to religious orders whose members are forbidden to own property individually or in common and must work or beg for their livings.
n.
1. A beggar.
2. A member of a mendicant order.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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