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English Dictionary: mendicity by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mendicity
n
  1. the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy"
    Synonym(s): beggary, mendicancy, mendicity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mendicity \Men*dic"i*ty\, n. [L. mendicitas: cf. F.
      mendicit[82]. See {Mendicant}.]
      The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.
      --Rom. of R.
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