mendicity
Example Sentences
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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 John P. (John Peter) Jones
We must remember, at the same time, as Dr. Hastings Rashdall points out, that the example of the Friars had made mendicity comparatively respectable.
From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Albert William Parry
This naturally necessitated mendicity, and it was not till some centuries had passed that the Church herself became reconciled to the possession of riches.
From Modern Saints and Seers by Evan Marrett
But the mendicity of the nineteenth century presents a very different spectacle from the mendicity of the seventeenth.
From Old Roads and New Roads by William Bodham Donne
