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

While it is true that a begging monk was by no means unknown, yet now, for the first time, was the practice of mendicity formally adopted by entire orders.

From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Wishart, Alfred Wesley

From that time two grave questions arose and were vehemently discussed in Christendom: What should be thought of the poverty and mendicity of Christ and his apostles?

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules

Every genuinely benevolent person loathes almsgiving and mendicity.

From Maxims for Revolutionists by Shaw, Bernard

The Council of Trent confined mendicity to the Observantines and Capuchins, since the other societies had practically abandoned their original interpretation of their vow of poverty and had acquired permanent property.

From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Wishart, Alfred Wesley