millionairism

Maybe after a certain point in millionairism, it becomes less about the money and more about the principal or pride you have in your work?

Time to sell? « The Paradigm Shift 2007

Modern millionairism at that time had not rendered possible such a social evolution as the "Four Hundred" of New York, that sickly product of the distempered conditions of the post-bellum congestion of wealth and morals - of masculine women and effeminate men.

The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1901

Page 92 all of his expenses paid, and cared nothing because he knew nothing of the misery of millionairism.

The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1901

[Materialism and millionairism were playing havoc in Germany.]

Gems (?) of German Thought William Archer 1890

That is probably right, or it would not happen; it seems to be in the general scheme, like millionairism and pauperism; but it becomes a question, then, whether the newspapers, with all their friendship for literature, and their actual generosity to literary men, can really help one much to fortune, however much they help one to fame.

The Man of Letters as a Man of Business William Dean Howells 1878

That is probably right, or it would not happen; it seems to be in the general scheme, like millionairism and pauperism; but it becomes a question, then, whether the newspapers, with all their friendship for literature, and their actual generosity to literary men, can really help one much to fortune, however much they help one to fame.

The Man of Letters as a Man of Business William Dean Howells 1878

That is probably right, or it would not happen; it seems to be in the general scheme, like millionairism and pauperism; but it becomes a question, then, whether the newspapers, with all their friendship for literature, and their actual generosity to literary men, can really help one much to fortune, however much they help one to fame.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

Your millionaire, for example, -- and millionairism is getting so common as to be almost vulgar, -- your millionaire never tires of telling you how he worked the multiplication table until cents became dimes, and dimes well sown blossomed presently into dollars, till hundreds swelled to hundreds of thousands, and the man who had been a blithe youth but twenty years before became the possessor of an uneasy tumor he calls a fortune.

The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869