mendicity

[ men-dis-i-tee ]

noun

1. mendicancy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mendicity¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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