Synonyms for mendicancy
-ˈdɪs ɪ timen·di·can·cy

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1. mendicancy

   Poverty denotes strictly lack of property or adequate means of support, but in common use is a relative term denoting any condition below that of easy, comfortable living; privation denotes a condition of painful lack of what is useful or desirable, tho not to the extent of absolute distress; indigence is lack of ordinary means of subsistence; destitution is lack of the comforts, and in part even of the necessaries of life; penury is especially cramping poverty, possibly not so sharp as destitution, but continuous, while that may be temporary; pauperism is such destitution as throws one upon organized public charity for support; beggary and mendicancy denote poverty that appeals for indiscriminate private charity.

   Synonyms:
   beggary, destitution, distress, indigence, need, pauperism, penury, poverty, privation, want

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1. beggary, mendicancy, mendicitynoun

   the state of being a beggar or mendicant

   "they were reduced to mendicancy"

   Synonyms:
   mendicity, beggary, begging

2. beggary, begging, mendicancynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   mendicity, beggary, begging

Matched Categories

1. • Indigence

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1. mendicancynoun

   Synonyms:
   beggary, mendicity

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