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Mammon

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Mam·mon  (mmn)
n.
1. Bible Riches, avarice, and worldly gain personified as a false god in the New Testament.
2. often mammon Material wealth regarded as having an evil influence.
[Middle English, from Late Latin mammon, from Greek mamns, from Aramaic mmon, riches, probably from Mishnaic Hebrew mmôn; see mn in Semitic roots.]
mammon
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wealth regarded as a source of evil and corruption, personified in the New Testament as a false god ([Mammon]) [New Testament Greek mammōnas wealth]
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Noun1.mammon - wealth regarded as an evil influence
wealth, wealthiness - the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money; "great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence"
2.Mammon - (New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit; "ye cannot serve God and Mammon"
New Testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible
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"Well, he thought that since he couldn't serve God and Mammon he'd better stick to Mammon," said Miss Cornelia crisply.
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
We wonder how such saints can sing, Or praise the Lord upon the wing, Who roar, and scold, and whip, and sting, And to their slaves and mammon cling, In guilty conscience union.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
MAMMON led them on, MAMMON, the least erected Spirit that fell From heav'n, for ev'n in heav'n his looks & thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold, Then aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific: by him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the Center, and with impious hands Rifl'd the bowels of thir mother Earth For Treasures better hid.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
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