mendicancy
- noun
- /ˈmɛn.dɪ.kən.si/
- Formal
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mendicidad
- In urban settings, mendicancy is often visible as individuals openly beg for money or food.
- poverty and mendicancy
- practice of mendicancy
- religious mendicancy
Examples
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What if communities of the devout laity might live partially by labor and partially by mendicancy?
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The central issues involved, however, remained the same, focusing on the much contested value of lay poverty and mendicancy.
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In economic terms, objections were raised to the very practice of mendicancy, which is so central to these new orders.
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For him, the poverty and mendicancy of the beguines was itself a serious threat.
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Still following Saint Bernard, Nider introduced the following qualification to his support for mendicancy.
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Given that mendicancy was both licit and laudable, was it superior to a life of poverty supported by labor?
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Moreover, any assault on the moral and religious value of mendicancy might also threaten the position of the mendicant orders themselves, not just the beguines.
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A slightly different question was whether it was licit to support a life of contemplation through mendicancy; that is, not simply to live from charity and alms freely given, but actively to beg for them.
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Likewise, Johannes Mulberg attacked beguines on the issue of what he perceived to be their illicit mendicancy.
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The point I want to stress here is that, whatever the explicit nature of the accusations and charges brought against beguines at any particular time, the issue of lay poverty and mendicancy, and the profound clerical ambivalence towards these practices, almost always lay at the root of the conflict.
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Synonyms
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1.9
Asking people on the street for money or food because you are poor
A situation where people ask strangers for money because they have none
The state of being very poor and having to beg for money or food
Antonyms
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3.0
Freedom from control by others, for example when a country is free or a person supports themselves
How Needy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mendicancy comes from the old Latin verb mendicare, meaning 'to beg', and from the noun mendicus, 'beggar', and you can see the same root in the English word mendicant. So, mendicancy means the state or practice of begging for money, food, or other needs, often in public.