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
From 1351 it endeavoured to suppress mendicity, and in part to systematize it in the interest of infirm and aged mendicants.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
Members of religious communities were expelled from their monasteries and reduced to mendicity.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell
"Sir," said my father shortly, "I never encourage peripatetic mendicity."
From In the Days of My Youth by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford
He writes polished letters full of mythology and modest mendicity.
From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan
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