Definition of "mendicity" [men•dic•i•ty]

• The state of being a beggar; mendicancy or beggary (noun)

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• "We are far enough, in this case, from that mendicity which is understood as a means of existence and the essential condition of a life of idleness."
• "Every country where begging, where mendicity, is a profession, is ill governed."
• "I let faireviews in on slobodens but ranked rothgardes round wrathmindsers: I bathandbaddend on mendicity and I corocured off the unoculated."