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Mendicancy

Mendicancy Meaning & Definition
Mendicancy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mendicancy?

[n] a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mendicancy: beggary | begging

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mendicancy: bare cupboard | bare subsistence | beggarliness | beggary | begging | bumming | cadging | deprivation | destitution | empty purse | grinding poverty | gripe | hand-to-mouth existence | homelessness | impoverishment | indigence | lack | mendicity | moneylessness | mooching | necessitousness | necessity | need | neediness | panhandling | pauperism | pauperization | penury | pinch | privation | scrounging | sponging | want

See Also | solicitation

Mendicancy In Webster's Dictionary

\Men"di*can*cy\, n. The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. --Burke.

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