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
In 1826 it was converted into a mendicity institution, and all its ornamental portions removed.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
But the mendicity of the nineteenth century presents a very different spectacle from the mendicity of the seventeenth.
From Old Roads and New Roads by William Bodham Donne
"I arrest you for mendicity," he said, just about to lay his hand on his shoulder.
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall
The Pontifical Government encourages mendicity by the protection of its agents, and recommends it by the example of its friars.
From The Roman Question by Edmond About
