Mendicant vs Levity - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between mendicant and levity

is that mendicant is a pauper who lives by begging while levity is lightness of manner or speech, frivolity.

is depending on alms for a living.

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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.

(en noun)

A pauper who lives by begging.

A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.

(en-noun)

Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity.

(obsolete) Lack of steadiness.

The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.

* F. Scott Fitzgerald

* Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity...

* Robert Montgomery Bird:

* 1869 Mary Somerville, On Molecular and Microscopic Science 1.1.12:

Hydrogen ... rises in the air on account of its levity .

(countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.

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