mendicancy
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One should equally avoid the appearance of mendicancy and that of prosperity . . . don't wait to be invited to ride . . . walk on the wrong side of the road.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Disillusioned with "the perishable world," he suddenly renounces his princely surroundings for a life of famished mendicancy.
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Rhee's truculence is echoed by many Koreans, and for understandable reasons: without the power resources, the fertilizer factories and the iron mines of North Korea, the republic is doomed to economic mendicancy.
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It was no part of Francis’s design that the friars should live by idle mendicancy, and we have seen that the Rule expresses the obligation to labor.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles
Was she, in her decrepit mendicancy, still youthful enough to remember something of the old happier days?
From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor