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mendicity
noun as in beggary
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Mendicity became a distinct institution, was divided into various branches, and was provided with a language of its own.
The remarks about retail trade, about adulteration, and about mendicity, have a very modern character.
In 1826 it was converted into a mendicity institution, and all its ornamental portions removed.
There was an enormous amount of vagrancy and mendicity, as there was in Scotland before the union.
Mendicity, as many a printed notice proclaims, is forbidden in the department of the Seine.
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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mendicity, such as: begging, destitution, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, and mendicancy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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