Akademik

mendicancy

noun

1. a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

• Syn: ↑beggary, ↑begging

• Derivationally related forms: ↑mendicant, ↑beg (for: ↑beggary)

• Hypernyms: ↑solicitation

2. the state of being a beggar or mendicant

- they were reduced to mendicancy

• Syn: ↑beggary, ↑mendicity

Useful english dictionary. 2012.