Mendicant (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
  2. pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar.
noun
  1. a person who lives by begging; beggar.
  2. a member of any of several orders of friars that originally forbade ownership of property, subsisting mostly on alms.
adjective
  1. begging
  2. (of a member of a religious order) dependent on alms for sustenance
  3. characteristic of a beggar
noun
  1. a mendicant friar
  2. a less common word for beggar
Mendicant (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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