Mammon

Definitions

1. The desire for wealth personified as an evil spirit or a malign influence.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Mammon (“wealth, material avarice”).
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3. Often mammon: wealth, material avarice, profit.

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Examples

“No man can ſerue two maſters: for either he will hate⟳ the one and loue the other, or elſe hee will holde to the one, and deſpiſe the other. Ye cannot ſerue God and Mammon.”

“They [bankers] would do what has been done by the Bank of France—buy⟳ bullion at a premium, on the approach⟳ of danger, and keep⟳ peril at a safe and respectable distance. Any expenditure that might be incurred for that purpose would be small indeed when contrasted with the immense loss and suffering caused by the present⟳ system, and the continual fear in which the public now live⟳ of some new crisis—because it has been out of one and into another for a long period now; and that will be the case hereafter, until we have⟳ no interval to gather strength, and recruit for the next struggle⟳ with Mammon, or Moloch, or whatever other name⟳ of evil import belongs to the "Tutelarity" of Lombard-street and its precincts.”

“Lives sacrificed upon the altar of Mammon, only units in the thousands who have⟳ fallen in the wilds of Australia, victims to the fever and unrest caused by the search⟳ for gold.”

“The proper sphere of the church, after all, was the kingdom of God, not greedy earthbound kingdoms of mammon, which should be left to temporal authorities to rule⟳ and squabble over.”

“But he [Andrew Wyeth] did not want⟳ to become⟳ an all-American illustrator like⟳ the Post's illustrious Norman Rockwell – and he had heard his own⟳ father, an illustrator, bemoan choosing the path of mammon rather than the path of virtue, and declined.”

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