mendicity

American  

[men-dis-i-tee] / mɛnˈdɪs ɪ ti /

noun

1. mendicancy.

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Etymology

Origin of mendicity

1350–1400; Middle English mendicite < Latin mendīcitās beggary, equivalent to mendīc ( us ) needy, beggarly + -itās -ity

Example Sentences

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mendicity

For Alexander it was just another day in the 1995 campaign, a marathon of mendicity that will do much to determine which G.O.P. hopefuls will survive to compete in the 1996 campaign.

From Time Magazine Archive

Feodora's mendicity would have provided an ample fund for their support, but unhappily that ingrate would hardly ever fetch home more than two or three shillings at a time.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce

But the mendicity of the nineteenth century presents a very different spectacle from the mendicity of the seventeenth. 

From Old Roads and New Roads by William Bodham Donne

There was an enormous amount of vagrancy and mendicity, as there was in Scotland before the union.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith

From that time two grave questions arose and were vehemently discussed in Christendom: What should be thought of the poverty and mendicity of Christ and his apostles?

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand