mendicancy

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Mendicancy, which is more rife at Venice, I am sorry to say, than in any other Italian city, except perhaps Naples, is not tolerated on the piazza.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various

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

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

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.