1. The state of being a beggar or mendicant
   "they were reduced to mendicancy"
   - beggary, mendicity 
2. A solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
   - beggary, begging

Derived forms: mendicancies

See also: mendicant

Type of: indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury, solicitation

Encyclopedia: Mendicancy

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