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
In the rural districts vagrancy and mendicity still survive, in spite of constabulary forces and petty sessions.
From Old Roads and New Roads by William Bodham Donne
In many cases it assumes only another form of mendicity.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight
Pious mendicity, so impatiently borne by our industrial and well-organized communities, was in its day, and in a suitable climate, full of charm.
From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan
Our indigent and indignant author, by the faithfulness of his representations, mingles with his anger some ludicrous scenes of literary mendicity.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
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