mendicancy

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  • Noun:
    a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

Word Origin

mendicancy (n.)
"state or condition of beggary," 1790, from mendicant + -cy. Also in this sense was mendicity (c. 1400), from Old French mendicité "begging," from Latin mendicitatem (nominative mendicitas) "beggary, mendicity."

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