| The Jain monks of both sects practice mendicancy, extreme austerity, and detachment. |
| For the Buddha's monks this meant a life of mendicancy, of poverty but not of self-mortification, of celibacy and of gentle honesty. |
| Although mendicancy would seem to preclude cenobitism, many orders are mendicant and cenobitic at different times. |
| Poverty Reduction Projects, humanitarian or socio-economic in nature, should not foster mendicancy. |
| Its peculiar brand of belligerent mendicancy has failed to win much sympathy. |
| Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy. |
