lucren.

Brit.

/ˈl(j)uːkə/, U.S.

/ˈlukər/

Forms: Middle English lukir, lukre, 1500s lucar, lucur, (?) lycur, 1500s–1600s luker, 1600s lukar, Middle English– lucre.

Etymology: < (either directly, or through French lucre) Latin lucrum, < West Aryan root *lū-, leu-, lou-, whence Greek ἀπολαύειν to enjoy, Gothic launs, Old High German lôn, modern German lohn wages, reward.

1. Gain, profit, pecuniary advantage. Now only with unfavourable implication: Gain viewed as a low motive for action; ‘pelf’. filthy lucre: (see filthy adj., n., and adv. Compounds 3); so †foul lucre. †Also plural.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun]

earningeOE

issuea1325

lucrec1380

lucre of gainc1386

return1419

feracityc1420

revenue1427

vantagec1430

afframing1440

revenue1440

availc1449

proventc1451

provenuec1487

rent1513

fardel1523

chevisance1535

gains1546

commodity1577

proceed1578

increasal1601

benefit1606

endowment1615

gaininga1631

superlucration1683

profit1697

bunce1706

making1837

bunt1851

plunder1851

yield1877

recovery1931

earner1970

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun]

winninga1300

purchasec1325

lucrec1380

chevisancea1400

framing1440

lucring1574

lucrifaction1606

lucration1658

money-making1785

realization1799

money getting1836

capital formation1889

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > profit as motive > low

lucrec1380

advantagea1400

filthy lucre1526

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 172 Þ ei traueilen faste about here owene worldly honour and lucre.

c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1544 Þus bothe oure þanke & lucre gon a-weye.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ezek. xxii. 27 In suynge lucris gredili.

1477 Rolls of Parl. VI. 187/2 They shuld have for lucre, favorable Enquestes of comers to the said Feyres.

1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 19 Preamble For their owne spede and lucre they suffer their ledder to passe untruly coryed.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. U.v Theyr owne handes open for theyr owne propre lucres.

1540 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Flores Aliquot Sententiarum sig. Avj^v Preferre dammage afore fowle lucre.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 283 They sel the fruits of their lands with lucre.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G3 Men haue entred into a desire of Learning and knowledge..for lukar and profession.

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. viii. 3 His sonnes..turned aside after lucre, and tooke bribes.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. ix. 49 The Phenicians, for lucres sake, sailed throughout the world.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 42 From his lov'd Home no Lucre him can draw.

1734 G. Berkeley Let. 2 Mar. in Wks. (1871) IV. 215 A greater greediness for lucre than I hope I shall ever have.

1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st lxii. 32 At lucre or renown let others aim.

1804 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) III. 23 Putting lucre out of the question, I am of opinion that we shall gain more influence.

1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. ii. ii. 193 In the earlier times of Rome the priesthood was a profession, not of lucre, but of honour.

1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) App. iii. 457 He wrote for lucre the party's speech which he was to deliver in his own person.

personified.1606 Wily Beguilde 30 Thus Lucre, set in golden Chaire of state, When learning's bid, Stand by, and keepes a loofe.

†2. Const. of: (a) gain or profit derived from (something) (obsolete); (b) acquisition of (something profitable) (obsolete exc. archaic).The phrase lucre of gain, frequent in 17th cent., is echoed as an archaism by some writers of the 19th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun]

earningeOE

issuea1325

lucrec1380

lucre of gainc1386

return1419

feracityc1420

revenue1427

vantagec1430

afframing1440

revenue1440

availc1449

proventc1451

provenuec1487

rent1513

fardel1523

chevisance1535

gains1546

commodity1577

proceed1578

increasal1601

benefit1606

endowment1615

gaininga1631

superlucration1683

profit1697

bunce1706

making1837

bunt1851

plunder1851

yield1877

recovery1931

earner1970

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > derived from something

lucrec1386

economic rent1875

c1386 G. Chaucer Prioress's Tale 39 Foule vsure and lucre of vileynye.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 380 Uppon the lucre of merchandie, Compassement and tricherie Of singuler profit to wynne.

c1430 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (E.E.T.S.) 1335 For now vnneth[e] ther ys noone That loueth but for lucre of gode.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 267 Such as..sell their skill and labour for lucre of monie.

a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady v. x. 86 in Wks. (1640) III Love to my Child, and lucre of the portion Provok'd me.

a1667 A. Cowley Agric. in Ess. in Verse & Prose (1687) 99 The Utility [of Agriculture] (I mean plainly the Lucre of it) is not so great now in our Nation as arises from Merchandise.

1697 Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 198 These Men of War ought not to carry any Merchants Goods, but the Lucre of Gain tempts them.

1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus I. 73 To write a Barbarous Recipe, purely for the Lucre of a Guinea.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 306 A Malabar for the Lucre of a Knife, conducted them to a Dutch Town.

1759 B. Langton Idler 28 July 233 It is..Love, and not Lucre of Gain, that is my motive for offering..Marriage.

1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 314 I am going to make a book for the lucre of gain.

a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) I. 85 Sometimes, too, the prolific are led, by the lucre of gain, to deck the childless with parental honours. Adopted books are as common as adopted children.

Derivatives

† ˈlucre v. Obsolete to make gain.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > be profitable to > make in profit

winc1175

gain1530

advantage1557

lucre1570

superlucrate1652

cleara1719

realize1720

net1765

to clean up1831

mop1861

gross1884

to cash in1904

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Gi/2 To Luker, lucrari.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Pii/2 To Lucre, lucrari.

† ˈlucring n. and adj. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun]

winninga1300

purchasec1325

lucrec1380

chevisancea1400

framing1440

lucring1574

lucrifaction1606

lucration1658

money-making1785

realization1799

money getting1836

capital formation1889

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] > profitable > making profit

lucring1574

1574 A. Anderson Expos. Hymne Benedictus f. 75^v Such popish Masse priestes..doe frame themselues to euery chaunge, thereby to satisfy their lucring lust.

1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 105 Such lucring Mammonists the heauens displease.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lucre
释义	lucren. Brit. /ˈl(j)uːkə/, U.S. /ˈlukər/ Forms: Middle English lukir, lukre, 1500s lucar, lucur, (?) lycur, 1500s–1600s luker, 1600s lukar, Middle English– lucre. Etymology: < (either directly, or through French lucre) Latin lucrum, < West Aryan root lū-, leu-, lou-, whence Greek ἀπολαύειν* to enjoy, Gothic launs, Old High German lôn, modern German lohn wages, reward. 1. Gain, profit, pecuniary advantage. Now only with unfavourable implication: Gain viewed as a low motive for action; ‘pelf’. filthy lucre: (see filthy adj., n., and adv. Compounds 3); so †foul lucre. †Also plural. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] earningeOE issuea1325 lucrec1380 lucre of gainc1386 return1419 feracityc1420 revenue1427 vantagec1430 afframing1440 revenue1440 availc1449 proventc1451 provenuec1487 rent1513 fardel1523 chevisance1535 gains1546 commodity1577 proceed1578 increasal1601 benefit1606 endowment1615 gaininga1631 superlucration1683 profit1697 bunce1706 making1837 bunt1851 plunder1851 yield1877 recovery1931 earner1970 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] winninga1300 purchasec1325 lucrec1380 chevisancea1400 framing1440 lucring1574 lucrifaction1606 lucration1658 money-making1785 realization1799 money getting1836 capital formation1889 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > profit as motive > low lucrec1380 advantagea1400 filthy lucre1526 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 172 Þ ei traueilen faste about here owene worldly honour and lucre. c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1544 Þus bothe oure þanke & lucre gon a-weye. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ezek. xxii. 27 In suynge lucris gredili. 1477 Rolls of Parl. VI. 187/2 They shuld have for lucre, favorable Enquestes of comers to the said Feyres. 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 19 Preamble For their owne spede and lucre they suffer their ledder to passe untruly coryed. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. U.v Theyr owne handes open for theyr owne propre lucres. 1540 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Flores Aliquot Sententiarum sig. Avj^v Preferre dammage afore fowle lucre. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 283 They sel the fruits of their lands with lucre. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G3 Men haue entred into a desire of Learning and knowledge..for lukar and profession. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. viii. 3 His sonnes..turned aside after lucre, and tooke bribes. View more context for this quotation 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. ix. 49 The Phenicians, for lucres sake, sailed throughout the world. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 42 From his lov'd Home no Lucre him can draw. View more context for this quotation 1734 G. Berkeley Let. 2 Mar. in Wks. (1871) IV. 215 A greater greediness for lucre than I hope I shall ever have. 1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st lxii. 32 At lucre or renown let others aim. 1804 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) III. 23 Putting lucre out of the question, I am of opinion that we shall gain more influence. 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. ii. ii. 193 In the earlier times of Rome the priesthood was a profession, not of lucre, but of honour. 1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) App. iii. 457 He wrote for lucre the party's speech which he was to deliver in his own person. personified.1606 Wily Beguilde 30 Thus Lucre, set in golden Chaire of state, When learning's bid, Stand by, and keepes a loofe. †2. Const. of: (a) gain or profit derived from (something) (obsolete); (b) acquisition of (something profitable) (obsolete exc. archaic).The phrase lucre of gain, frequent in 17th cent., is echoed as an archaism by some writers of the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] earningeOE issuea1325 lucrec1380 lucre of gainc1386 return1419 feracityc1420 revenue1427 vantagec1430 afframing1440 revenue1440 availc1449 proventc1451 provenuec1487 rent1513 fardel1523 chevisance1535 gains1546 commodity1577 proceed1578 increasal1601 benefit1606 endowment1615 gaininga1631 superlucration1683 profit1697 bunce1706 making1837 bunt1851 plunder1851 yield1877 recovery1931 earner1970 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > derived from something lucrec1386 economic rent1875 c1386 G. Chaucer Prioress's Tale 39 Foule vsure and lucre of vileynye. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 380 Uppon the lucre of merchandie, Compassement and tricherie Of singuler profit to wynne. c1430 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (E.E.T.S.) 1335 For now vnneth[e] ther ys noone That loueth but for lucre of gode. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 267 Such as..sell their skill and labour for lucre of monie. a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady v. x. 86 in Wks. (1640) III Love to my Child, and lucre of the portion Provok'd me. a1667 A. Cowley Agric. in Ess. in Verse & Prose (1687) 99 The Utility [of Agriculture] (I mean plainly the Lucre of it) is not so great now in our Nation as arises from Merchandise. 1697 Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 198 These Men of War ought not to carry any Merchants Goods, but the Lucre of Gain tempts them. 1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus I. 73 To write a Barbarous Recipe, purely for the Lucre of a Guinea. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 306 A Malabar for the Lucre of a Knife, conducted them to a Dutch Town. 1759 B. Langton Idler 28 July 233 It is..Love, and not Lucre of Gain, that is my motive for offering..Marriage. 1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 314 I am going to make a book for the lucre of gain. a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) I. 85 Sometimes, too, the prolific are led, by the lucre of gain, to deck the childless with parental honours. Adopted books are as common as adopted children. Derivatives † ˈlucre v. Obsolete to make gain. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > be profitable to > make in profit winc1175 gain1530 advantage1557 lucre1570 superlucrate1652 cleara1719 realize1720 net1765 to clean up1831 mop1861 gross1884 to cash in1904 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Gi/2 To Luker, lucrari. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Pii/2 To Lucre, lucrari. † ˈlucring n. and adj. Obsolete ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] winninga1300 purchasec1325 lucrec1380 chevisancea1400 framing1440 lucring1574 lucrifaction1606 lucration1658 money-making1785 realization1799 money getting1836 capital formation1889 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] > profitable > making profit lucring1574 1574 A. Anderson Expos. Hymne Benedictus f. 75^v Such popish Masse priestes..doe frame themselues to euery chaunge, thereby to satisfy their lucring lust. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 105 Such lucring Mammonists the heauens displease. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1380
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