mendicant vs scrounging

mendicant

noun
  • A pauper who lives by begging. 

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

adj
  • 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. 

scrounging

noun
  • The act of one who scrounges. 

  • Material that has been scrounged. 

How often have the words mendicant and scrounging occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )