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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Disillusioned with "the perishable world," he suddenly renounces his princely surroundings for a life of famished mendicancy.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

On the other hand, there is no habitually criminal class in Greece, such as exists in the large centres of civilization, and professional mendicancy is still rare.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

Another influence, which largely contributes to the existence of the mendicancy that scandalizes the traveller, is the tradition of recent poverty.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various