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mammonish, a.|ˈmæmənɪʃ| [f. Mammon + -ish.] Influenced by or devoted to Mammon.
1837Syd. Smith Let. to Archd. Singleton Wks. 1859 II. 258/1 This, it will be said, is a Mammonish view of the subject. 1840Carlyle Heroes vi. (1858) 349 A great black devouring world not Christian, but Mammonish, Devilish. 1843― Past & Pr. iii. ix. 1851T. Parker in Weiss Life & Corr. I. 381 Unitarian ministers have..generally congregations more mammonish..than the orthodox congregations. |