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mendicity

[ men-dis-i-tee ]

/ mɛnˈdɪs ɪ ti /

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Origin of mendicity

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

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH mendicity

mendacity, mendicity

Words nearby mendicity

Menderes, Mendes, Mendès-France, mendicancy, mendicant, mendicity, mending, Mendips, Mendocino, mend one's fences, mend one's ways

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Example sentences from the Web for mendicity

Mendicity became a distinct institution, was divided into various branches, and was provided with a language of its own.
The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars|Anonymous
The remarks about retail trade, about adulteration, and about mendicity, have a very modern character.
Laws|Plato
In 1826 it was converted into a mendicity institution, and all its ornamental portions removed.
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800|Mary Frances Cusack
There was an enormous amount of vagrancy and mendicity, as there was in Scotland before the union.
Irish History and the Irish Question|Goldwin Smith

Mendicity, as many a printed notice proclaims, is forbidden in the department of the Seine.
Old and New Paris, v. 2|Henry Sutherland Edwards

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