Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Devotion to the pursuit of material wealth; the spirit of worldliness; the service of Mammon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness.
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- noun The
pursuit of greatwealth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yanno, wall street represent materialism or mammonism people that would take your wealth and see you in debt peonage.
Think Progress » Wall Street Republicans Form ‘Action Tank’ To Push Corporate Agenda 2010
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They are like politicos who are into mammonism, a ritual of greed, avarice and malfeasance.
PGMA skip PMA Homecoming Celebration Nomadicasian 2008
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The other Bishops and Archbishops are in collusion with the greedy-guts, the one who practice mammonism.
Local Priest hit church leaders Nomadicasian 2008
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These people are ten times greedier than Marcos abetted by their being cultic members of mammonism.
Local Priest hit church leaders Nomadicasian 2008
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Joe Manton aristocracies; giant-working mammonism near strangled in the partridge nets of giant-looking Idle
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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He referred to the spreading of mammonism and irreligion by which efforts to instruct and Christianize the heathen were paralyzed.
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War Carter Godwin Woodson 1912
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In fine, W---- was not in any respect peculiar, or, as a community, specially afflicted with heartlessness, frivolity, brainlessness, or mammonism; the average was fair, reputable, in all respects.
Macaria 1872
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In fine, W---- was not in any respect peculiar, or, as a community, specially afflicted with heartlessness, frivolity, brainlessness, or mammonism; the average was fair, reputable in all respects.
Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864
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In it he stresses that Christians must be "an example of evangelical practice in the family and workplace," transforming "the mammonism [the worship of money], hedonism, consumerism and culture on life" that dominate society.
Spero News 2009
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Obviously, church leaders are aware of the government’s lack of credibility and the practice of mammonism in high places.
Local Priest hit church leaders Nomadicasian 2008
whichbe commented on the word mammonism
Devotion to pursuit of wealth.
May 23, 2008