Usually means: Begging or relying on charity.
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  1. mendicancy: Merriam-Webster
  2. mendicancy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mendicancy: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mendicancy: Vocabulary.com
  5. mendicancy: Wordnik
  6. mendicancy: Wiktionary
  7. mendicancy: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Mendicancy, mendicancy: Dictionary.com
  9. Mendicancy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Mendicancy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. mendicancy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. mendicancy: Rhymezone
  13. Mendicancy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. mendicancy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. mendicancy: FreeDictionary.org
  16. mendicancy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. mendicancy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mendicancy)

▸ noun:  The act or state of being a mendicant

Similar:
beggary, begging, mendication, devilment, mendaciousness, beggarism, miscreancy, malady, misdemeanist, miserism, more...

Opposite:
affluence, wealth, prosperity, abundance

Adjectives:
religious, political, professional, new, importunate, impudent, mere, itinerant, literary, juvenile, majestic

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Similar:
beggary, begging, mendication, devilment, mendaciousness, beggarism, miscreancy, malady, misdemeanist, miserism, more...

Opposite:
affluence, wealth, prosperity, abundance

Adjectives:
religious, political, professional, new, importunate, impudent, mere, itinerant, literary, juvenile, majestic



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