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
Every genuinely benevolent person loathes almsgiving and mendicity.
From Maxims for Revolutionists by Bernard Shaw
In the early years of the 19th century the mendicity societies, established in some of the larger towns, were a sign of the general discontent with existing methods of administration.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
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 John Beauchamp Jones
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 Mary Frances Cusack
