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MENDICITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mendicity mean?
• MENDICITY (noun)
The noun MENDICITY has 1 sense:
1. the state of being a beggar or mendicant
Familiarity information: MENDICITY used as a noun is very 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 ("mendicity" is a kind of...):
indigence; need; pauperism; pauperization; penury (a state of extreme poverty or destitution)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"The start of a journey should never be mistaken for success." (English proverb)
"Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper." (Maimonides)
"I'm already drowning so why should I fear getting wet?" (Arabic proverb)
"Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no' steal when he's old." (Scottish proverb)
"Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper." (Maimonides)
"I'm already drowning so why should I fear getting wet?" (Arabic proverb)
"Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no' steal when he's old." (Scottish proverb)