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

From that time two grave questions arose and were vehemently discussed in Christendom: What should be thought of the poverty and mendicity of Christ and his apostles?

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules

The Magdalen has probably too much of the abject expression of mendicity in her attitude; and, for a creature thus poor and prostrate, one is surprised to find her gazing upon a golden cross.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

I cannot imagine how they continue to dress so magnificently, unless it be their old finery, which looks well amid the general aspect of shabby mendicity.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

Religions mendicity has hitherto been the great safety valve through which the unquiet transition spirit has found vent under our strong and settled government.

From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by Sleeman, William