mendicancy

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Mrs Wilfer's first visit to the Mendicant's bride at the new abode of Mendicancy, was a grand event.

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles

Mendicancy flies from the workhouse and the stone-yard to entrench itself against Guardians and relieving-officers among the soup-kitchens and the coal-tickets of feminine almsgiving.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

In spite of the peculiar characters of these reminiscences, I cannot help feeling a certain regret at the decay of Professional Mendicancy.

From Urban Sketches by Harte, Bret

Mendicancy, except in the case of little children who do it for the nonce, seems unknown in the Morea.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.

Mendicancy, preaching, hearing confessions, and teaching publicly were the capital sins that consigned the Friars to reprobation.

From Saint Bonaventure The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order by Costelloe, Laurence