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

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

He was infected with the garrulity of old age, and made the most of his opportunities by unblushing mendicancy.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden

It was no part of Francis’s design that the friars should live by idle mendicancy, and we have seen that the Rule expresses the obligation to labor.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles