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Mendicant in a sentence
Mendicant meaning
- Depending on alms for a living.
- Of or pertaining to a beggar.
- Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.
Synonyms of Mendicant
Using Mendicant
- The main meaning on this page is: Depending on alms for a living. | Of or pertaining to a beggar. | Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.
- Useful related words include: beseeching, friar, religious, beggar.
- In the example corpus, mendicant often appears in combinations such as: mendicant orders, the mendicant, mendicant friars.
Context around Mendicant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mendicant
- In this selection, "mendicant" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, early, european, orders, friars and monk stand out and add context to how "mendicant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include being a mendicant monk and and exempt the mendicant orders and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mendicant" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mendicant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They were a mendicant order living in complete poverty and known for their beautiful singing. (15 words)
It did, however, exempt the mendicant orders and the poor who contributed less than 40 sous. (16 words)
Quite early in their history the Carmelites began to develop ministries in keeping with their new status as mendicant religious. (20 words)
It was one of the mendicant orders – together with that of the Dominicans, born in the same years, and others – which represented the Church’s “response” to the pauperism advocated by the Cathars and the Waldenses. (36 words)
However, mendicant friars travelled around a lot and needed a shortened, or abbreviated, daily office contained in one portable book, and single-volume breviaries flourished from the thirteenth century onwards. (30 words)
Since the Reformation in the 16th century, it is the main Protestant church of Erfurt and furthermore one of the largest former churches of the mendicant orders in Germany. (29 words)
Example sentences (10)
It was one of the mendicant orders – together with that of the Dominicans, born in the same years, and others – which represented the Church’s “response” to the pauperism advocated by the Cathars and the Waldenses.
And so he goes through this path of being a mendicant monk and abandons his life of luxury and lives in the woods.
They were a mendicant order living in complete poverty and known for their beautiful singing.
A great deal is known about Aztec religion due to the work of the early mendicant friars in their work to convert the indigenous to Christianity.
However, mendicant friars travelled around a lot and needed a shortened, or abbreviated, daily office contained in one portable book, and single-volume breviaries flourished from the thirteenth century onwards.
It did, however, exempt the mendicant orders and the poor who contributed less than 40 sous.
Later, under pressure from other European Mendicant orders to be more specific, the name " Saint Bertold " was given, possibly drawn from the oral tradition of the Order.
Quite early in their history the Carmelites began to develop ministries in keeping with their new status as mendicant religious.
Since the Reformation in the 16th century, it is the main Protestant church of Erfurt and furthermore one of the largest former churches of the mendicant orders in Germany.
The mendicant orders were envious of the Jesuits' economic power and influence and the fact that fewer good candidates for their orders chose them as opposed to the Jesuits.
Common combinations with mendicant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: