mendicancy (n.)

  1. the state of being a beggar or mendicant; they were reduced to mendicancy

    [ Syn: beggary , mendicity ]

  2. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

    [ Syn: beggary , begging ]

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