Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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mendicancy | Yes | No | No | No |
mendicant | Yes | Yes | No | No |
mendicancy (noun) | mendicant (noun) |
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a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | a pauper who lives by begging |
the state of being a beggar or mendicant | a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms |
mendicancy (adjective) | mendicant (adjective) |
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practicing beggary |