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
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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
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Disillusioned with "the perishable world," he suddenly renounces his princely surroundings for a life of famished mendicancy.
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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 Bangs, John Kendrick
I usually found him overwhelmed with place-hunters; for in France political mendicancy exists under every form of government.
From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de