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
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
This, however, does not necessarily proceed from the Union, but from certain other wise notions respecting mendicancy and vagrancy.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
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