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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the state of being a beggar or mendicant;
- Example: "they were reduced to mendicancy"
[syn: beggary, mendicancy, mendicity]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mendicity \Men*dic"i*ty\, n. [L. mendicitas: cf. F.
   mendicit['e]. See Mendicant.]
   The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.
   --Rom. of R.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mendicity
    n 1: the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were
         reduced to mendicancy" [syn: beggary, mendicancy,
         mendicity]