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- n. Plural form of mendicant.
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“Amongst minor offences, apart from that evasion of supervision which is no more than a legal condition, there are, both in France and in Italy, very frequent cases of relapse by vagabonds and mendicants, which is a consequence of social environment, as well as of the feeble organisation of the individuals.”
“We do not call mendicants and those who perform the rituals as Guru.”
“If "mendicants" are known to be liars, why could not "false pretences" be omitted?”
“They were "mendicants," [24] who possessed no property but lived on the alms of the charitable.”
“I may not endure such words: since neither was Paul ashamed to be continually troublesome upon such points as these and to speak words such as mendicants use.”
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“The spending benefits a minority of civil service workers and a class of chronic and incurable mendicants.”
“Naturally, unlike those talented but unfortunate "underground" musicians and the thousands of mendicants begging in the subways I had no interest in getting any other "reward" than the response and occasional verbal appreciation of those who joined in song, danced, or just listened.”
“Some of you, or those to come after you, will be mendicants and wanderers, teaching the chronicles of Earth and the canticles of the Crucified to the peoples and the cultures that may grow out of the colony groups.”
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“President O has followed it up with announcing $75 billion to "stem foreclosures" and serial corporate mendicants GM and Chrysler have asked for another $21 billion in aid.”
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“Many German lawmakers and commentators saw other euro members as idle mendicants grasping for Germany's hard-earned money.”
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