Mammon

mammon English 2016 September 13 thumb|Mammon and His Slave, a 1896 yes engraving by Sascha Schneider Alternative forms en mammon Etymology From en la-lat mammona wealth, from Hellenistic en grc μαμωνᾶς, from en arc מָמוֹנָא māmōnā money, wealth. Compare he מָמוֹן mamón money. Pronunciation en /ˈmæmən/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Mammon.wav Southern England en /ˈmæmən/ GA en æmən General American 2 en Mam mon Proper noun The desire for wealth personified as an evil spirit or a malign influence. Matthew 6 24 No man can ſerue two maſters: for either he will hate the one and loue the other, or elſe hee will holde to the one, and deſpiſe the other. Ye cannot ſerue God and Mammon. en The Present Panic Tait's Edinburgh Magazine Edinburgh William Tait November 1857 XXIV 644 https://books.google.com/books?id=0QEbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA644 1607056 They [bankers] would do what has been done by the Bank of France—buy bullion at a premium, on the approach of danger, and keep peril at a safe and respectable distance. Any expenditure that might be incurred for that purpose would be small indeed when contrasted with the immense loss and suffering caused by the present system, and the continual fear in which the public now live of some new crisis—because it has been out of one and into another for a long period now; and that will be the case hereafter, until we have no interval to gather strength, and recruit for the next struggle with Mammon, or Moloch, or whatever other name of evil import belongs to the "Tutelarity" of Lombard-street and its precincts. en 1887 Harriet W. Daly Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia 306 Lives sacrificed upon the altar of Mammon, only units in the thousands who have fallen in the wilds of Australia, victims to the fever and unrest caused by the search for gold. Often en mammon: wealth, material avarice, profit. en Edwin [B.] Mullins The Popes of Avignon: A Century in Exile New York, N.Y. BlueBridge 2008 978-1-933346-15-1 43 The proper sphere of the church, after all, was the kingdom of God, not greedy earthbound kingdoms of mammon, which should be left to temporal authorities to rule and squabble over. en Michael McNay Andrew Wyeth: Realist painter whose work was much loved by the US public but divided the critics [obituary] http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jan/19/andrew-wyeth-obituary https://web.archive.org/web/20160316012029/http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jan/19/andrew-wyeth-obituary 16 March 2016 w:The Guardian London 19 January 2009 But he [Andrew Wyeth] did not want to become an all-American illustrator like the Post's illustrious Norman Rockwell – and he had heard his own father, an illustrator, bemoan choosing the path of mammon rather than the path of virtue, and declined. Synonyms en money en wealth Derived terms en Mammondom mammonic mammonish mammonism Mammonist Mammonite mammonization mammonize mammonolatry Translations evil spirit Cherokee: chr ᎹᎹᏂ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 瑪門 Mǎmén Danish: da Mammon Japanese: ja マンモン Spanish: es Mammón, es Mamón wealth Czech: cs mamon m Swedish: sv mammon c Further reading en Money German Pronunciation de De-Mammon.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun m.sg Mammon de colloquial money Declension m.sg