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MENDICANCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mendicancy mean?
• MENDICANCY (noun)
The noun MENDICANCY has 2 senses:
1. the state of being a beggar or mendicant
2. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
Familiarity information: MENDICANCY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being a beggar or mendicant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
beggary; mendicancy; mendicity
Context example:
they were reduced to mendicancy
Hypernyms ("mendicancy" is a kind of...):
indigence; need; pauperism; pauperization; penury (a state of extreme poverty or destitution)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("mendicancy" is a kind of...):
solicitation (an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status)
Derivation:
mendicant (practicing beggary)
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