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Mendicity   Listen
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Mendicity  n.  The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.





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"Mendicity" Quotes from Famous Books



... honest amiable gentlewoman to have her daughter do this; but the h.a.g. having been reared in luxury, considered labour degrading—which it is—and there was not much to steal in that part of Thuringia. Feodora's mendicity would have provided an ample fund for their support, but unhappily that ingrate would hardly ever fetch home more than two or three shillings at a time. Goodness knows what she did ...
— Cobwebs From an Empty Skull • Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)
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... will be fed as well as housed for three days gratuitously- -provided their health does not require a longer stay; but they must not beg on the premises of the hospice; professional beggars will be at once handed over to the mendicity society in Biella, or even perhaps to prison. The poor for whom a hydropathic course is recommended, can have it under the regulations made by the committee—that is to say, if there ...
— Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • Samuel Butler
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... quarters in Osnaburgh-terrace; and here a domestic difficulty befell of which the mention may be amusing, when I have disposed of an incident that preceded it too characteristic for omission. The Mendicity Society's officers had caught a notorious begging-letter writer, had identified him as an old offender against Dickens of which proofs were found on his person, and had put matters in train for ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
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Words linked to "Mendicity" :   need, penury, pauperization, mendicancy, beggary, pauperism


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