mendicancy

English

Etymology

From mendicant +‎ -ancy.[1]

Noun

mendicancy (countable and uncountable, plural mendicancies)

  1. The act or state of being a mendicant

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “mendicancy, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.