mendicity
71pauperism — noun a state of extreme poverty or destitution their indigence appalled him a general state of need exists among the homeless • Syn: ↑indigence, ↑need, ↑penury, ↑pauperization • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
72pauperization — noun 1. the act of making someone poor • Syn: ↑pauperisation, ↑impoverishment • Derivationally related forms: ↑impoverish (for: ↑impoverishment), ↑pauperise ( …
73men|dic|i|ty — «mehn DIHS uh tee», noun. beggary; mendicancy: »Among the poor, and in times of great strife among all that are displaced, mendicity becomes a way of life. ╂[< Middle French mendicité, learned borrowing from Latin mendīcitās, ātis <… …
