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

Goldoni considered Harlequin as a poor devil and dolt, whose coat is made up of rags patched together; his hat shows mendicity; and the hare's tail is still the dress of the peasantry of Bergamo.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

He was a bitter foe to vagabondage and mendicity.

From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by McCabe, James Dabney

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

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