How To Use Mendicancy In A Sentence
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they were reduced to mendicancy
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(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
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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
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The Guru was opposed to mendicancy and parasitical living.
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It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
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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.
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It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
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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
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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'
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Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy.
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And into my face I strove to throw all the wan wistfulness of famished and ingenuous youth of mendicancy.
Confession
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The unconquered Hercules himself, since you despise my instances as drawn from mere mendicancy, Hercules that roamed the whole world, exterminated monsters, and conquered races, god though he was, had but a skin for raiment and a staff for company in the days when he wandered through the earth.
The Defense
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He established a system of poor relief, taxed the nobles and the clergy to pay its costs, and then made mendicancy a crime.
Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
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Regarding the Roma minority, the decree does not include new rules, except for rougher sentences for those who practice mendicancy involving children - up to 3 years in jail and decay from parental rights, in case the minors put to beg are their children.
Romanians in Italy already found an antidote against Berlusconi: one-day trips to San Marino
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For the Buddha's monks this meant a life of mendicancy, of poverty but not of self-mortification, of celibacy and of gentle honesty.
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True to his vow of mendicancy he had relinquished the long held post of Prime Minister of Vijayanagara, the legendary Hindu kingdom he was instrumental in establishing with Harihara and Bukka in AD 1336.
