Mendicants synonyms

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friars
A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).
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beggars
The definition of a beggar is a person who asks people for money or gifts to sustain himself, or is a person who is extremely poor.
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vagabonds
An idle, disreputable, or shiftless person
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monks
A man who is a member of a brotherhood living in a monastery and devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order:
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moochers
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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requests (related)
Something asked for:
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Mendicants Sentence Examples

  • They are declared to be mendicants and enjoy all the privileges of the other mendicant orders.

  • Chunda prepared for the mendicants a mid-day meal, and after the meal the Buddha started for Kusinara.

  • (5) Aghora Panthis, a vile and disreputable class of mendicants, now rarely met with.

  • Do you imagine that I am not able to supply the wants of so many mendicants?"

  • The mendicants, Dominican and Franciscan, took rapid root in England; the number of friaries erected in the reign of Henry III.

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