mendicity

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For Alexander it was just another day in the 1995 campaign, a marathon of mendicity that will do much to determine which G.O.P. hopefuls will survive to compete in the 1996 campaign.

From Time Magazine Archive

I cannot imagine how they continue to dress so magnificently, unless it be their old finery, which looks well amid the general aspect of shabby mendicity.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

There was an enormous amount of vagrancy and mendicity, as there was in Scotland before the union.

From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin

Goldoni considered Harlequin as a poor devil and dolt, whose coat is made up of rags patched together; his hat shows mendicity; and the hare's tail is still the dress of the peasantry of Bergamo.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

It should be further remarked that there are a number of begging castes, in which all work is proscribed and mendicity exalted into a divinely ordained profession!

From India, Its Life and Thought by Jones, John P. (John Peter)