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mendicant

noun as in beggar

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Example Sentences

He has been on intimate terms with czar and serf, he has met millionaire and mendicant, he has hobnobbed with prince and pauper.

In a way of speaking, this mendicant of Coney Island was perhaps of this class.

They probably despised her already; how much more they would despise her in the character of a mendicant!

I must go there, if I clothe myself in the rags of a mendicant lama and beg my way from one black tent to another.

In a few days the town of Brussels swarmed with ash-gray garments such as were usually worn by mendicant friars and penitents.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mendicant, such as: monk, panhandler, pauper, and vagabond.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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