Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render mammonish or devoted to the pursuit of material wealth; actuate by a spirit of mammonism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make mammonish.
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- verb To render
mammonic , to cause to pursue great wealth.
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Examples
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To materialize this glorious people, to commercialize and mammonize it, to make it think of economics instead of life, to make it bitter, discontented, and tyrannous, this is to strike at the very heart of
The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster Harold Begbie 1900
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The modern dress of illuminated Europe has, in my humble opinion, gone far to weaken the old empire of the Porte, to denationalize Egypt, to degenerate the Jews, to mammonize once generous Greece, and carry republican equality into the great prairies of America: it is the undistinguishing, humiliating, unchivalrous livery of our cold cosmopolites.
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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The modern dress of illuminated Europe has, in my humble opinion, gone far to weaken the old empire of the Porte, to denationalize Egypt, to degenerate the Jews, to mammonize once generous Greece, and carry republican equality into the great prairies of America: it is the undistinguishing, humiliating, unchivalrous livery of our cold cosmopolites.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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