mendicancy

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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I hear some people complain of the beggars, and wonder why Rome, with her splendid system of charities for the relief of every form of suffering, permits mendicancy.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard

I have seen a photograph of one, with a police certificate of mendicancy hanging round his neck.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport