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Meanings of mendicant in English
One who practices mendicancy and relies chiefly or exclusively on alms to survive.
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Usage of mendicant in English
1
Servants and masters mingle together, and even the mendicant is kindly received.
2
Those who envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police.
3
O lady of the mendicant order, I cherish an affection for thee.
4
This kind of mendicant is distinctly rural, and belongs to old times.
5
At Sanam Luang he bought a kite from a mendicant kite salesman.
6
Before these, what a base mendicant is Memory with his leathern badge!
7
The plague ravaged Ephesus; I made them stone an old mendicant.
8
I dared to put off the mendicant-toresume my natural manner and character.
9
I did not wish him to come before them as a threadbare mendicant.
10
Thou art he that is adorned with the marks of the mendicant order.
11
It drags along, a lamentable workshop mendicant, from copy to copy.
12
CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel.
13
He had traversed the Indian conquests of Alexander, as a mendicant.
14
Gounsovski, in recognition, extended his hand to her like a mendicant.
15
He had no fear of these mendicant disciples of St. Francis.
16
The man who respects his wife does not turn her into a mendicant.
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