mendicancy

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noun

1. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
• Syn:
beggary, begging
• Derivationally related forms:
mendicant, beg (for: beggary)
• Hypernyms:
solicitation
2. the state of being a beggar or mendicant
- they were reduced to mendicancy
• Syn:
beggary, mendicity
• Hypernyms:
indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization