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mendicancy
This term carries a formal, often legalistic or ecclesiastical tone, distinguishing it from the more common word begging. It describes not just the act of asking for money, but the systemic state of poverty or a chosen lifestyle of asceticism. In a legal context, it often appears in statutes regarding vagrancy or public order.
Because it describes an abstract state or a general practice, the word is treated as an uncountable mass noun. It does not have a plural form and cannot be counted with numbers; instead, it requires partitive constructions if one needs to refer to specific instances of the practice.
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