Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mendicancy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mendicancy \Men"di*can*cy\, n.
The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. --Burke.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mendicancy
n : a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street
by an apparently penniless person) [syn: {beggary}, {begging}]
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