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men|dic|i|ty
men|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 < mendicus beggar]

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