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

"Sir," said my father shortly, "I never encourage peripatetic mendicity."

From In the Days of My Youth by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

The Pontifical Government encourages mendicity by the protection of its agents, and recommends it by the example of its friars.

From The Roman Question by About, Edmond

"I arrest you for mendicity," he said, just about to lay his hand on his shoulder.

From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)

From 1351 it endeavoured to suppress mendicity, and in part to systematize it in the interest of infirm and aged mendicants.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various