Mendicant vs Vagary - What's the difference?
mendicant | vagary |
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.
A pauper who lives by begging.
A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.
An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
* 1871 , , At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies , ch. 8:
An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.
* 1905 , , War of the Classes , Preface:
As nouns the difference between mendicant and vagary
is that mendicant is a pauper who lives by begging while vagary is an erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.As an adjective mendicant
is depending on alms for a living.mendicant
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(en noun)vagary
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(vagaries)- It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil.
- And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.
