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View synonyms for mendicity

mendicity

[ men-dis-i-tee ]

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mendicity1

1350–1400; Middle English mendicite < Latin mendīcitās beggary, equivalent to mendīc ( us ) needy, beggarly + -itās -ity
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Example Sentences

Mendicity became a distinct institution, was divided into various branches, and was provided with a language of its own.

The remarks about retail trade, about adulteration, and about mendicity, have a very modern character.

In 1826 it was converted into a mendicity institution, and all its ornamental portions removed.

There was an enormous amount of vagrancy and mendicity, as there was in Scotland before the union.

Mendicity, as many a printed notice proclaims, is forbidden in the department of the Seine.

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