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    MENDICITY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The state of being a beggar or mendicantplay

    Example:

    they were reduced to mendicancy

    Synonyms:

    beggary; mendicancy; mendicity

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("mendicity" is a kind of...):

    indigence; need; pauperism; pauperization; penury (a state of extreme poverty or destitution)

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