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mendicity

NOUN
  1. the state of being a beggar or mendicant
    they were reduced to mendicancy

How To Use mendicity In A Sentence

  • Both colonial and republican administrators believed that the Poor House could serve to eradicate mendicity.
  • The Constituent Assembly set up a committee on mendicity which collected impressive information on the scale of the problem.
  • Their goals, Arrom argues, exemplified the Bourbon modernizing project in their optimism that mendicity could be eradicated, and in their utilitarian, disciplinary, and civilizing intent.
  • Every country where begging, where mendicity, is a profession, is ill governed. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • I let faireviews in on slobodens but ranked rothgardes round wrathmindsers: I bathandbaddend on mendicity and I corocured off the unoculated. Finnegans Wake
  • That April of 1812 I visited sixty-five cities to inspect the houses of detention and the beggars in the depots of mendicity. THE DIAMOND
  • We are far enough, in this case, from that mendicity which is understood as a means of existence and the essential condition of a life of idleness. Life of St. Francis of Assisi
  • Rome and the Campagna have been afflicted, from time immemorial, by two plagues, mendicity and brigandage, which after having infected the district with more or less violence for nearly twenty centuries, have been finally thoroughly extirpated by the Italian national government, and relegated to a place among the legends of the past.
  • From what has just been detailed, it will be seen how amazing is the extent of pauperism and mendicity.
  • The beggars of her neighbourhood avoid her like a pestilence; for while she walks out, protected by John, that domestic has always two or three mendicity tickets ready for deserving objects. The Book of Snobs
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