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