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MENDICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mendicity mean? 

MENDICITY (noun)
  The noun MENDICITY has 1 sense:

1. the state of being a beggar or mendicantplay

  Familiarity information: MENDICITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MENDICITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being a beggar or mendicant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

beggary; mendicancy; mendicity

Context example:

they were reduced to mendicancy

Hypernyms ("mendicity" is a kind of...):

indigence; need; pauperism; pauperization; penury (a state of extreme poverty or destitution)


 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"The start of a journey should never be mistaken for success." (English proverb)

"Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dine like a pauper." (Maimonides)

"I'm already drowning so why should I fear getting wet?" (Arabic proverb)

"Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no' steal when he's old." (Scottish proverb)



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