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Noun: mendicity  men'di-su-tee
  1. The state of being a beggar or mendicant
    "they were reduced to mendicity";
    - beggary, mendicancy

Derived forms: mendicities

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

Encyclopedia: Mendicity