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

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)

Every genuinely benevolent person loathes almsgiving and mendicity.

From Maxims for Revolutionists by Shaw, Bernard

In the rural districts vagrancy and mendicity still survive, in spite of constabulary forces and petty sessions. 

From Old Roads and New Roads by Donne, William Bodham

In 1826 it was converted into a mendicity institution, and all its ornamental portions removed.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances