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Noun: mendicancy
  1. The state of being a beggar or mendicant
    "they were reduced to mendicancy"
    - beggary, mendicity
     
  2. A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
    - beggary, begging

Derived forms: mendicancies

See also: mendicant

Type of: indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury, solicitation

Encyclopedia: Mendicancy

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