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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
mendicancy
    n 1: the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were
         reduced to mendicancy" [syn: beggary, mendicancy,
         mendicity]
    2: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by
       an apparently penniless person) [syn: beggary, begging,
       mendicancy]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mendicancy \Men"di*can*cy\, n.
   The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. --Burke.
   [1913 Webster]
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, panhandling, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, scrounging, sponging, want
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