mendicancy

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Disillusioned with "the perishable world," he suddenly renounces his princely surroundings for a life of famished mendicancy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rhee's truculence is echoed by many Koreans, and for understandable reasons: without the power resources, the fertilizer factories and the iron mines of North Korea, the republic is doomed to economic mendicancy.

From Time Magazine Archive

One should equally avoid the appearance of mendicancy and that of prosperity . . . don't wait to be invited to ride . . . walk on the wrong side of the road.

From Time Magazine Archive

Defoe says that wages in England were higher than anywhere on the Continent, though the amount of mendicancy was enormous.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

It cannot, I regret to say, be denied that mendicancy is very common in Ireland; so common as to be little less than a national scandal.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various