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mendicancy

English

  1. 🔊 the state of being a beggar or mendicant
    “they were reduced to mendicancy”
  2. 🔊 a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

Similar words

beggary begging beggary mendicity bare cupboard bare subsistence beggarliness beggary begging bumming cadging deprivation destitution empty purse grinding poverty gripe hand-to-mouth existence homelessness impoverishment indigence lack mendicity moneylessness mooching