mendicancy
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Disillusioned with "the perishable world," he suddenly renounces his princely surroundings for a life of famished mendicancy.
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
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
The works of holiness of the old Church--an irrational alms-giving--had spread throughout Christendom an unwieldy mass of mendicancy.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
To stand with a lifted hat and solicit a hearing savors of mendicancy and an humble spirit.
From Rosemary and Rue by Amber
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