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• n  the state of being a beggar or mendicant
  they were reduced to mendicancy
• n  a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

• Disillusioned with "the perishable world," he suddenly renounces his princely surroundings for a life of famished mendicancy.
• One should equally avoid the appearance of mendicancy and that of prosperity .

• beggary
• mendicity
• begging

Quotes

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• Bruce Golding in Jamaica Gleaner
  As Prime Minister Bruce Golding warned his colleagues in the Jamaican Parliament, even if there is a valid case to be made for development assistance, there is no entitlement and as a country and as a region we must "purge this mendicancy".