mendicancy

noun

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

the state of being a beggar or mendicant

Roots

mendicusmendic- · Latin · beggar, needy antia-ancy · Latin · state of

Synonyms for mendicancy

mendicityn beggaryn beggingn beggarlinessn pauperismn indigencen penuryn destitutionn pauperizationn needinessn impoverishmentn

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