| The two chief faults of the system were the principle of mendicancy and the exemption from episcopal control. |
| Poverty Reduction Projects, humanitarian or socio-economic in nature, should not foster mendicancy. |
| The mendicancy laws have taken from him his human demand on Man. |
| For the Buddha's monks this meant a life of mendicancy, of poverty but not of self-mortification, of celibacy and of gentle honesty. |
| The Jain monks of both sects practice mendicancy, extreme austerity, and detachment. |
| Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy. |
