What Is Mendicancy? Definition And Usage Of This Term

WHAT IS MENDICANCY – In this topic, we will first know and learn the definition of this term and how is this term used in sentences.

Definition

The Oxford Dictionary defines the term as the following:

derived from mendicant, which means given to begging; or of or denoting one of the religious orders who originally relied solely on alms.

Meanwhile, the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines this term as the following:

Synonyms

Here are some of the following synonyms:

Etymology

The term is from the Latin term mendīcāns, which is a present participle of mendīcō which means ‘beg’.

Examples

Here are some examples of the usage of this term:

He published essays on the way to destroy mendicancy and to improve the condition of the labourers, and also on the establishment of a fund for rural relief and the organization of rural education.
“To be poor without mendicancy, to unite the flexible unity, the swift obedience of an order, with free and constant mingling among the poor, such was the ideal of Wycliffe’s ` poor priests'”
His works include a number of memorials and projects for stopping duelling, equalizing taxation, treating mendicancy, reforming education and spelling, &c. It was not, however, for his suggestions for the reform of the constitution that he was disgraced, but because in the Polysynodie he had refused to Louis XIV.
Though there is hardly a sect which has not contributed its share to the element of religious mendicancy and asceticism so prevalent in India, it is in connexion with the Siva-cult that these tendencies have been most extensively cultivated.