mendicant
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∙ 11y agoMendicant refers to a person who lives by begging for money or food. A sample sentence is: "The mendicant outside the church fell asleep".
The mendicant always asks for money at that particular store.
Each led the life of a simple mendicant, preaching that individuals should seek their own salvations.
In French, a Mendicant, sometimes Mendiant, is the popular word for a (Bum) a vagrant type of man. Is sometimes applied to a tramp steamer as un Vaisseau Mendicant- which could also, etymologically, be a repair ship or salvage vessel, but is not.
The mendicant was begging at his doorstep yesterday, or the mendicant was praying in church.
The word "mendicant" is a noun. It refers to a beggar or someone who relies on charitable donations to support themselves.
The mendicant Orders that formed at this time were the Franciscans and the Dominicans, followed by the Carmelites, and the Servites.
Peregrine mendicant
Some word families for "mendicant" include mendicancy (noun form), mendicate (verb form), and mendicity (related noun form).
The term mendicant (Latin mendicans, begging) refers to begging or relying on charitable donations, and is most widely used for religious followers or ascetics who rely exclusively on charity to survive.
The phrase "reading is mendicant and sycophantic" suggests that reading can be seen as begging (mendicant) for knowledge or approval, and using flattery (sycophantic) to gain favor. It may imply that seeking knowledge solely for personal gain or to impress others can be insincere or self-serving.
it is actually called mendicant