Meaning of MENDICANCY
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| | Definition: | | [n] a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) |
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| | Synonyms: | | beggary, begging |
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| | See Also: | | solicitation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Men"di*can*cy\, n.
The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. --Burke.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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