Mendicancy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mendicancy \Men"di*can*cy\, n.
     The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. --Burke.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  mendicancy
       n : a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street
           by an apparently penniless person) [syn: {beggary}, {begging}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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