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mammon

[ UK /mˈæmən/ ]
NOUN
  1. wealth regarded as an evil influence

How To Use mammon In A Sentence

  • Though this mammon of unrighteousness is not to be trusted to for a happiness, yet it may and must be made use of in subserviency to our pursuit of that which is our happiness. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • But even it is treating with Mammon this year.
  • His book is Growth Fetish and if it weren't for the fact that he was trained as an economist, you might expect him to be holding forth in a church pulpit on the evil of mammon.
  • Those who set out to serve both god mammon soon discover that there is no god.
  • In what we call our temporal life God gets only a formal recognition, while Mammon is the referee. The Conquest of Fear
  • Today Confucian ideals and modern mammon are equally revered in a fine balancing act while the Koreans hold on to their unique identity. MOON PASSAGE
  • But no, the lure of Mammon is so great that they've schlepped into town and braved the crowds for the dubious delights of risking death-by-stampede in the lighting department.
  • Many of these persons, notwithstanding the worship paid to the great god Mammon, and the glory reflected upon all those who seem to be his favorite, have yet so begrimed themselves in their struggle after wealth, and are naturally so unamiable, and their manners so gross, that though each one has his circle, larger or smaller, of dependants and ‘toadies,’ they find no admission for themselves into the two-year-old circle above alluded to. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Googalicious
  • Many of these persons, notwithstanding the worship paid to the great god Mammon, and the glory reflected upon all those who seem to be his favorite, have yet so begrimed themselves in their struggle after wealth, and are naturally so unamiable, and their manners so gross, that though each one has his circle, larger or smaller, of dependants and ‘toadies,’ they find no admission for themselves into the two-year-old circle above alluded to. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Googalicious
  • The use of the Greek word mammon, meaning money or wealth, in this context carries a sort of personification.
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