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adjective

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Recent Examples of mendicant
Noun
The first mendicant orders, like the Franciscans and Dominicans, received papal approval in the early 13th century. Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 27 May 2025 The abrupt appearance and disappearance of the mendicant pilgrim is part of her power. Seyward Darby, Longreads, 5 Apr. 2023 No doubt the traditional tunic and mantle of his mendicant religious order met some standard of austerity when they were adopted in the Middle Ages. Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 2 Jan. 2021
Adjective
On page 1,179, a mob of angry Haitian mendicants dissatisfied with their latest handouts chase some American workers into the motel parking lot, and then surround their cars. Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 8 Oct. 2025 Guido eventually became a Dominican friar, dedicating himself to making art within the mendicant order; after his death, in 1455, he became known as Fra Angelico, or the Angelic Friar. Louise Bokkenheuser, Air Mail, 4 Oct. 2025 Unlike monks who withdrew from ordinary life, mendicants stressed a life of poverty, spent in travel from town to town to preach and help the poor. Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 27 May 2025 Augustinians are mendicants, like the Franciscans, Dominicans, and Carmelites. Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025 In Thank You for Your Servitude, which for my money is the only truly interesting book about the Trump presidency, author Mark Leibovich goes into harrowing detail about how the modern GOP readily turned itself into a gaggle of mendicants to serve Trump on bended knee. Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 29 Apr. 2023 But both mendicant and supplicant have a religious connotation. Stephen Miller, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021 The island was a coda of sorts: a place of Christian pilgrimage since the death of a local mendicant, later canonized as St. Cuthbert, in 687. Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mendicant
Noun
  • In Havana, beggars are ubiquitous.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Brando, the owner of an atoll in Tahiti, where his family dwelled, had become the beggar of Hollywood, who had to feed on crumbs.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • With a frill-less monastic setting, this institution has several London locations, but Smithfield is the OG, serving signature dishes like roasted bone marrow and oven-hot madeleines available by the dozen and half dozen.
    Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The story of a woman’s retreat into monastic life is familiar; somewhat less familiar is Wood’s use of the modular form.
    Nathaniel Moore September 10, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But degraded conventual forces could drive Putin to other means of exerting force.
    Matt Seyler, ABC News, 10 May 2022
  • The Rev. Brad Heckathorne, a Conventual Franciscan friar, performed the ceremony at the chapel at Duke University.
    New York Times, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2017
Adjective
  • Not long after the accident, Thurlow had a religious awakening.
    Andy Kroll, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Kuelap Fortress, considered the Machu Picchu of the north, is a striking wonder perched on top of a cliff that likely served as a religious center.
    Jen Richt, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The French duo that made distortion divine and disco dangerous is back on American soil.
    Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Theosophy, or divine wisdom, was a progenitor of the New Age movement of the 20th century.
    Madison Beveridge, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Bible And Armenia’s Wine History The winemaking apparatus was found next to what amounts to a cemetery, likely for sacramental or religious purposes.
    Layne Randolph, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Either way, the installation was not meant to replace sacramental confession.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025

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