mendicancy

How To Use mendicancy In A Sentence

• they were reduced to mendicancy
• (Zakát): thus he avoided the shame and scandal of mendicancy which, beginning in the Catholic countries of Southern Europe, extends to The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• To beg for votes, as if they were alms or broken victuals, is a form of mendicancy which is incompatible with common self-respect, and yet it is a self-abasement which thirty years ago custom imperatively demanded. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography
• The Guru was opposed to mendicancy and parasitical living.
• It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
• The French Constituent Assembly set up a commission on mendicancy and in 1796 legislation provided for hospices for the sick and required every commune to organize a bureau de bienfaisance for outdoor relief.
• It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
• Additionally, in medieval society unaccompanied and unsupervised women were seen as dangerous, to both themselves and others; so Dominican women were also denied the mendicancy that the men of the Order practiced. 12 To have espoused any other attitude would have been viewed as unnatural. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
• I haven't begged for books in a long time. . .and despite this lapse in mendicancy on my part, several of you generous folks continue to fire books my way. Book Beggin'
• Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy.