mendicant

[US]/ˈmendɪkənt/
[UK]/ˈmendɪkənt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. begging; relating to a mendicant monk

n. a beggar; a mendicant monk

Example Sentences

a mendicant Buddhist monk

the mendicant parson, whom I am so fond of squibbing.

And near Kampyr-Tepe, we were invited to the site of a Buddhist lamasery, where the mendicant monks lived underground in a labyrinth, to protect them from the terrible heat and cold of the plain.

mendicant way of life

mendicant vow of poverty

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