Mendicancy is valid Scrabble Word

Is mendicancy a scrabble word?
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10 letters word
20 points in Scrabble
24 points in WWF

Definitions for MENDICANCY in dictionary:

NOUN:

the practice of begging, also MENDICITY
The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.
the state of being a beggar or mendicant
a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)

ADJECTIVE:

of or denoting one of the religious orders who originally relied solely on alms
given to begging.
a member of a mendicant order.
a beggar.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the condition of being a beggar

Words related to MENDICANCY

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How to use MENDICANCY in a sentence

Thousands were reduced to mendicancy, numbers perished on the very highways, and the road was literally black with funerals.
Neither mendicancy, nor the life of a Sudra is what is proper for thee.
I always bow down unto the Brahmanas whose mode of living is mendicancy.
The Government has done a good thing in diminishing this frightful mendicancy.
We must remember that mendicancy is a very ancient institution in Italy, and that it will die hard, if it ever dies at all.
Since free thought was impossible, private enterprise gave way to mendicancy and indolence.
James Forbes, chief of the Mendicancy Department of the Charity Organization Society, says he has never seen or heard of an Italian tramp.
As for begging, between July 1, 1904, and September 30, 1905, the Mendicancy Police in New York took into custody 519 Irish and only 92 Italians.
One great object in the establishment of a legal relief for the destitute would be the right it afforded to take measures for the suppression of mendicancy.
But this seeming mendicancy is not confined to these classes, for even the reverend fathers and brethren walk in the same footsteps unblushingly.

The words of acquiescence should spring to meet your own, for the various branches of mendicancy are languishing, and Yuen Yan can have no secret store of wealth.
Yet the colony abounded in idle men, and mendicancy at one time assumed such proportions as to require the enforcement of stringent penalties.
Even of the last we have heard ominous whispers in the shape of bills to promote mendicancy under the specious guise of fostering education or rewarding military services.
To work may be beneath him, to beg is a different matter, and there is frequently a delightful hauteur about his mendicancy.
Nothing, I am credibly informed, can exceed the shocking and disgusting spectacle of mendicancy displayed in that capital.
They have lately appointed a standing committee of mendicancy.
It sometimes happens that the beggar who has taken to mendicancy as a profession is obliged to go to the workhouse as a kind of temporary refuge.

Similar words containing MENDICAN without suffix cy

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