mendicity

Example Sentences

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For Alexander it was just another day in the 1995 campaign, a marathon of mendicity that will do much to determine which G.O.P. hopefuls will survive to compete in the 1996 campaign.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is very shortsighted, however, who thinks that a majority of the people, where universal suffrage exists, will submit long to a state of toil and mendicity.

From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter

Every genuinely benevolent person loathes almsgiving and mendicity.

From Maxims for Revolutionists by Shaw, Bernard

Feodora's mendicity would have provided an ample fund for their support, but unhappily that ingrate would hardly ever fetch home more than two or three shillings at a time.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose

While it is true that a begging monk was by no means unknown, yet now, for the first time, was the practice of mendicity formally adopted by entire orders.

From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Wishart, Alfred Wesley