mammonistn.
/ˈmamənɪst/, U.S. /ˈmæmənəst/ A worshipper of Mammon; a person dedicated to the acquisition of wealth.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > gaining or amassing money > devotion to > follower of
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1548 R. Crowley Informacion & Peticion sig. Bviv Let them no more be named christians..but Mammonistes after Mammon whose badge they beare.
1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 415 They are all Mammonistes and worldlinges.
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 105 Such lucring Mammonists the heauens displease.
1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety v. 105 Let him come to the converted Mammonist, and ask him which he finds the better Treasury, his own Coffer or the poor mans Bowels.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. iii. 209/2 The Gains of Mammonists.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow 78 The..world-honoured company of Christian Mammonists.
1886 W. Graham Social Probl. IV. iv. 459 On the theory of enlightened egoism the mammonist money-maker has missed the finest things.
1912 W. E. Hocking Meaning of God ii. 21 To-day one need be no materialist, no mammonist,..to disperse with the separate practice of religion.
1995 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 4: Middle East (B.B.C.) 19 Jan. ME/2205/MED A world..in which the role of mammonists and bullies and the wicked and malicious propaganda by the Western and Eastern mass media has no place.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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