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mendicancy (n.)
"state or condition of beggary," 1790, from
mendicant
+
-cy
. Also in this sense was
mendicity
(c. 1400), from Old French
mendicité
"begging," from Latin
mendicitatem
(nominative
mendicitas
) "beggary, mendicity."