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What is the noun for mendicity?

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mendiant
  1. A traditional French Christmas confection, a chocolate disc studded with nuts and dried fruits representing the various mendicant monastic orders.
  2. Obsolete form of mendinant.
mendicant
mendicity
  1. the state of being a beggar; mendicancy or beggary
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The Constituent Assembly set up a committee on mendicity which collected impressive information on the scale of the problem.”
      “Both colonial and republican administrators believed that the Poor House could serve to eradicate mendicity.”
      “From what has just been detailed, it will be seen how amazing is the extent of pauperism and mendicity.”
mendinant
  1. (obsolete) A mendicant or begging friar.
mendicancy
  1. The act or state of being a mendicant
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy.”
      “For the Buddha's monks this meant a life of mendicancy, of poverty but not of self-mortification, of celibacy and of gentle honesty.”
      “The Jain monks of both sects practice mendicancy, extreme austerity, and detachment.”
mendicancies
mendicants
  1. plural of mendicant
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The paduka or toe-knob sandals were usually worn by ascetics and mendicants.”
      “If they were poor to begin with, they would scarcely be better off as mendicants wholly dependent on the charity of poor householders.”
      “Look at the number of swamis, yogis, babas and even mendicants who have made a fortune in the western world, especially in America.”
mendinants
  1. plural of mendinant
mendicities
mendiants
  1. plural of mendiant
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