Mendicant synonyms

mĕn'dĭ-kənt

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beggar (related)
A person who is very poor; pauper
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moocher
A person having a tendency to repeatedly ask help of others, especially if they are making little effort to help themselves. Usually used as a pejorative.
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bummer
A beggar.
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panhandler
A bum.
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vagabond
An idle, disreputable, or shiftless person
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pauper
Any person who is extremely poor
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tramp (related)
The sound produced by heavy walking or marching.
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beggar.--a. begging
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friar
A member of a usually mendicant Roman Catholic order.
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monk
A member of a male religious order living in a monastery or hermitage observing a common rule, under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
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almsman
(Now Rare) A person, esp. a man, supported by alms
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almswoman
(Archaic) A woman who depends on the receipt of alms; a female beggar.
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cadger
(Archaic) A hawker or peddler.
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request (related)
A formal message requesting something.
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pious (related)
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brahmin (related)
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prelate (related)
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Find another word for mendicant. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for mendicant, like: beggar, moocher, bummer, panhandler, vagabond, pauper, tramp, beggar.--a. begging, friar, monk and almsman.
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Mendicant Sentence Examples

  • The mendicant monks stirred up the populace to acts of fanatical enmity.

  • faqir - names originally designating only the mendicant orders).

  • To counteract it celibacy was finally imposed on the clergy, and the great mendicant orders evolved; while the constant polemic of the Cathar teachers against the cruelty, rapacity and irascibility of the Jewish tribal god led the church to prohibit the circulation of the Old Testament among laymen.

  • His pontificate was signalized by efforts to unite the Greek and Latin churches, by the establishment of the Inquisition in France, by favours shown to the mendicant orders, and by an attempt to organize a crusade against the Tatars.

  • Of Saiva mendicant and ascetic orders, the members of which are considered more or less followers of Sankara Acharya, the following may be mentioned: (I) Dandis, or staff-bearers, who carry a wand with a piece of red cloth, containing the sacred cord, attached to it, and also wear one or more pieces of cloth of the same colour.

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