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mendicants

mendicants is the plural of mendicant.

Meaning of mendicant

Noun

mendicant (plural mendicants)

  1. A pauper who lives by begging.
    • I made £150 by Alton Locke, and never lost a farthing; and I got, not in spite of, but by the rows, a name and a standing with many a one who would never have heard of me otherwise, and I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer, while I was winning by the...1856 May, Thomas Hughes, quoting Charles Kingsley, “Prefatory Memoir”, in Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], London: Macmillan and Co., published 1876, →OCLC, page lvi
  2. A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.

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Questions about mendicants

What is mendicants the plural of?
Mendicants is the plural of mendicant.

Words near mendicants in the dictionary

  1. mendicancy squad
  2. mendicancy squads
  3. mendicant
  4. mendicant order
  5. mendicant orders
  6. mendicants
  7. mendicate
  8. mendicated
  9. mendicates
  10. mendicating
  11. mendication

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