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mendicancy
noun[ U ]
formaluk /ˈmen.dɪ.kən.si/ us /ˈmen.dɪ.kən.si/
the practice or act of someone asking people they do not know for money, or the practice of some religious groups of making a living by accepting money from people they do not know:
The first sign of his social concerns came in his public attack on mendicancy.
The strict principles of mendicancy forbid a monk from asking for anything.
To obtain any revenue is inconsistent with their vows of poverty and mendicancy.
This study focuses on how mendicancy was successfully controlled in the early 1950s.
His father criticized him for begging, and he replied that mendicancy was the correct custom for Buddhists.
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