| For the Buddha's monks this meant a life of mendicancy, of poverty but not of self-mortification, of celibacy and of gentle honesty. |
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| Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy. |
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| The Jain monks of both sects practice mendicancy, extreme austerity, and detachment. |
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| Poverty Reduction Projects, humanitarian or socio-economic in nature, should not foster mendicancy. |
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| Its peculiar brand of belligerent mendicancy has failed to win much sympathy. |
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| Although mendicancy would seem to preclude cenobitism, many orders are mendicant and cenobitic at different times. |
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| As we saw in the session on economic administration, fundraising is also an important part of the Order's mendicancy, and needs to be an essential element in the strategic plans of all of the Order's centres of learning. |
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| This classification led to the holding of an eisteddfod, or a session of bards, to confer certificates of proficiency and to prevent the lower orders from proliferating and drifting into mendicancy. |
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