Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun [cap. or lowercase] A devotee of Mammon; a mammonist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon.

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Examples

  • If the truth must be spoken, however, in most cases the Southern Yankee does a very wise thing by depriving his children of the free use of his property after he is dead: for as the toiling grub always produces the thoughtless butterfly, so does your genuine mammonite nearly always give birth to thriftless snobs, or drunken debauchees, or idle spendthrifts.

    Social relations in our Southern States, 1860

  • We just believe in a benevolent God, not an angry war mongering, mammonite sort of demigod* intent on impoverishing the Middle Class!

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2012

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