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
I should compile as my contribution to the literature of mendicancy for the following season what I should call The Beggar's Élite Directory.
From The Inventions of the Idiot by John Kendrick Bangs
The very clothes he had to wear were given him—the stick he leaned on was an alms; and his indignation scoffed at his mendicancy, as though it were a wrong against himself.
From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Charles James Lever
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