mendicancy
1. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) • Syn: beggary, begging • Derivationally related forms: mendicant, beg (for: beggary) • Hypernyms: solicitation 2. the state of being a beggar or mendicant - they were reduced to mendicancy • Syn: beggary, mendicity • Hypernyms: indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization
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