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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.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 9y agoA mendicant is a beggar. However, mendicant has a much more positive connotation than beggar and is often used to describe monks and others who have chosen to live in poverty on the charity of others for religious reasons.
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How do you use mendicant in a sentence?
mendicant
What part of speech is mendicant?
The word mendicant is a noun. A mendicant is someone who lives by begging.
Can you give me sentences using the word mendicant?
The mendicant was begging at his doorstep yesterday, or the mendicant was praying in church.
Mendicant in a sentence?
Mendicant refers to a person who lives by begging for money or food. A sample sentence is: "The mendicant outside the church fell asleep".
A sentence using the word mendicant?
The mendicant always asks for money at that particular store.
How do put mendicant in a sentence?
Each led the life of a simple mendicant, preaching that individuals should seek their own salvations.
A sentence using mendicant?
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.
What is a fancy word for hobo?
Peregrine mendicant
What were the mendicant orders of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries?
The mendicant Orders that formed at this time were the Franciscans and the Dominicans, followed by the Carmelites, and the Servites.
One who lives by begging?
it is actually called mendicant
What is the word family of mendicant?
Mendums and Mendican.
What does reading is mendicant and sycophantic mean?
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.
