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A person, typically homeless, who lives by asking for money or food
“His role as a peripatetic mendicant allowed him a freedom to see every way of life and every corner of his civilization.”
A holy man who devotes life to the contemplation of god
A person making a humble or earnest plea to someone in power or authority
Reliant on begging, cadging, or mooching for sustenance or support
“After all, Francis of Assisi and Dominic Guzman, not Innocent III, energized the mendicant movement that swept Europe in the thirteenth century.”
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