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

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

It is interesting to note that mendicity was not looked upon with favour in those days, and that praiseworthy attempts were made to regulate it and restrain it within the narrowest possible limits.

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by LeSueur, William Dawson

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)

Our indigent and indignant author, by the faithfulness of his representations, mingles with his anger some ludicrous scenes of literary mendicity.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac