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(noun) beggar / (noun) a member of a religious order (as the Franciscans) combining monastic life and outside religious activity and originally owning neither personal nor community property; friar

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mendicant



There was no need. The shower is obligatory only for unclean mendicants. Simone Pau had never taken it.

—p.15 Shoot! (1) by Luigi Pirandello
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1 year ago


the mute eloquence of a mendicant's eyes

i thought it meant liar lol

—p.140 Two Poems by Charles Baudelaire (140) missing author
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6 years, 2 months ago


the reader, reduced to something like mendicant vulnerability by its more nerve-wrenching moments

—p.426 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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6 years, 9 months ago