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English Dictionary: mendicancy by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mendicancy
n
  1. the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy"
    Synonym(s): beggary, mendicancy, mendicity
  2. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
    Synonym(s): beggary, begging, mendicancy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mendicancy \Men"di*can*cy\, n.
      The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. --Burke.
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