mendicity
Americannoun
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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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
It is to this, in a great measure, the augmentation of vice and mendicity =sic= is to be attributed in nations, as they become wealthy and great.
From An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by William Playfair
Members of religious communities were expelled from their monasteries and reduced to mendicity.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
"I arrest you for mendicity," he said, just about to lay his hand on his shoulder.
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall
Religions mendicity has hitherto been the great safety valve through which the unquiet transition spirit has found vent under our strong and settled government.
From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman
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