mendicancy
英 ['mendɪkənsɪ] 美 ['mendɪkənsɪ]

n.

乞丐，托钵，行乞修道士；

英英释义

mendicancy[ 'mendikənsi ]

• n.
  • the state of being a beggar or mendicant

    "they were reduced to mendicancy"

    同义词：beggarymendicity

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

    同义词：beggarybegging

权威例句

Mendicancy
The new mendicancy: homeless in New York City.
Becoming Urban: Mendicancy and Vagrants in Modern Shanghai
SOME SOCIAL AND MENTAL ASPECTS OF MENDICANCY
The origins of religious mendicancy in medieval Europe
Religious Poverty, Mendicancy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages
Beggars of God: The Christian Ideal of Mendicancy
Begging the Question: Disability, Mendicancy, Speech and the Law
A Crippling Deceit: Mendicancy and the Performance of Disability in Progressive America
Mendicancy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: "uBI necessitas non Urgeat": The preachers facing the "refrigescens caritas"