Noun: mendicancy men-di-kun(t)-see
- The state of being a beggar or mendicant
"they were reduced to mendicancy";
- beggary, mendicity
- A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
"mendicancy was prohibited in certain areas of the city";
- beggary, begging
Derived forms: mendicancies
Type of: indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury, solicitation
Encyclopedia: Mendicancy