mendicity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the state of being a beggar or mendicant
    mendicancy; beggary.
    • they were reduced to mendicancy

WordNet

Men*dic"i*ty noun
Etymology
L. mendicitas: cf. F. mendicité. See Mendicant.
Definitions
  1. The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy. Rom. of R.

Webster 1913