mendicity
Noun
Meaning
The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
beggary
mendicancy
poverty
begging
destitution
impoverishment
indigence
penury
poorness
penuriousness
pennilessness
pauperism
vagrancy
impecuniosity
impecuniousness
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Examples
The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.
they were reduced to mendicancy