mendicity

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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

Members of religious communities were expelled from their monasteries and reduced to mendicity.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell

"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 Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)

Every genuinely benevolent person loathes almsgiving and mendicity.

From Maxims for Revolutionists by Shaw, Bernard

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 Cusack, Mary Frances