Sample Sentences formendicant (editor-reviewed)
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The mendicant friar wandered from village to village, relying entirely on the charity of others for food and shelter.mendicant = one who survives by begging others for handouts
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During the Middle Ages, mendicant orders like the Franciscans took vows of poverty and supported themselves through begging.mendicant = surviving by begging others for handouts
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Then they set out upon the road again, slumped and cowled and shivering in their rags like mendicant friars sent forth to find their keep. (source)
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Suddenly I was stabbed with alarm, sensing an unholy and unnatural presence of flapping vulturous black, until I realized in an instant that the two mendicant nuns had blundered into the wrong facility. (source)
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Moreover, the idea of replacement, which had been so effective an inducement for his mendicancy of love, had been completely erased from his mind. (source)mendicancy = begging or desperately seeking
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He only begged just enough to save himself, for the laws against mendicancy were stringent, and the penalties heavy; so he put in a good deal of his time listening to good Father Andrew's charming old tales and legends about giants and fairies, dwarfs and genii, and enchanted castles, and gorgeous kings and princes. (source)mendicancy = begging
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Seven years a mendicant on foreign charity I lingered abroad: seven years is no brevity. (source)mendicant = beggar
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Then, in the fens and the vast forests, the last of the Saxons had defended themselves against the bitter rule of Uther the Conqueror; then the words "Norman" and "Baron" had been equivalent to the modern word of "Sahib"; then Llewellyn ap Griffith's head, in its crown of ivy, had mouldered on the clustered spikes of the Tower; then you would have met the mendicants by the roadside, mutilated men who carried their right hands in their left, and the forest dogs would have trotted beside them, also mutilated by the removal of one toe—so that they could not hunt in the woodlands of the lord.† (source)
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It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.† (source)
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They probably despised her already; how much more they would despise her in the character of a mendicant! (source)
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The sages of the hermit groves and the wandering mendicants who play a conspicuous role in the life and legends of the East; in myth such figures as the Wandering Jew (despised, unknown, yet with the pearl of great price in his pocket); the tatterdemalion beggar, set upon by dogs; the miraculous mendicant bard whose music stills the heart; or the masquerading god, Zeus, Wotan, Viracocha, Edshu: these are examples.† (source)
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Let us give over this mendicancy.† (source)
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I dared to put off the mendicant — to resume my natural manner and character.† (source)
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In the daytime nobody was seen there but mendicants devouring their crusts, and children at play.† (source)
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a sewer, from which escaped every morning, and whither returned every night to crouch, that stream of vices, of mendicancy and vagabondage which always overflows in the streets of capitals;† (source)
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Those who envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police.† (source)
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