'Mendicancy' definitions:
Definition of 'mendicancy'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Mendicancy'
From: GCIDE
- Mendicancy \Men"di*can*cy\, n. The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mendicancy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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