单词 | plutolatry |
释义 | plutolatryn. rare. Excessive worship of wealth. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > worship of wealth wealth-worship1850 plutolatrya1891 society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of wealth wealth-worship1850 plutolatrya1891 a1891 J. R. Lowell Stud. Mod. Lang. in Latest Lit. Ess. (1891) 157 The barbarizing plutolatry which seems to be so rapidly supplanting the worship of what alone is lovely and enduring. 1895 L. F. Ward in Forum (U.S.) Nov. 301 Of the other sentiment,..‘plutolatry’—the worship of wealth—even the victims show traces. 1977 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 42 526/2 This involves neither a moral assertion nor a presumption of plutolatry. 1982 T. McAlindon in H. Bloom Joseph Conrad's Nostromo 64 But this is to speak only of the republic's unofficial imported religion, plutolatry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1891 |
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