mendicancy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
mendicancy
    n 1: the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were
         reduced to mendicancy" [syn: {beggary}, {mendicancy},
         {mendicity}]
    2: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by
       an apparently penniless person) [syn: {beggary}, {begging},
       {mendicancy}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mendicancy \Men"di*can*cy\, n.
   The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. --Burke.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "mendicancy":
      bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, begging,
      bumming, cadging, deprivation, destitution, empty purse,
      grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness,
      impoverishment, indigence, lack, mendicity, moneylessness,
      mooching, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, panhandling,
      pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, scrounging,
      sponging, want
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