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

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

He was a bitter foe to vagabondage and mendicity.

From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by McCabe, James Dabney

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 Smith, Goldwin

I cannot imagine how they continue to dress so magnificently, unless it be their old finery, which looks well amid the general aspect of shabby mendicity.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

English travellers are given to commenting on the mendicity in foreign cities, but I must confess that nowhere have I met with so many beggars as in our own capital.

From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)