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MENDICANCY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

Synonyms:

beggary; begging; mendicancy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mendicancy" is a kind of...):

solicitation (an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status)

Derivation:

mendicant (practicing beggary)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The state of being a beggar or mendicant

Example:

they were reduced to mendicancy

Synonyms:

beggary; mendicancy; mendicity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("mendicancy" is a kind of...):

indigence; need; pauperism; pauperization; penury (a state of extreme poverty or destitution)

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