Mammoniten.

Brit.

/ˈmamənʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˈmæmənaɪt/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Mammon n., -ite suffix¹.

Etymology: < Mammon n. + -ite suffix¹, probably after biblical ethnonyms such as Ammonite (Deuteronomy 2:20, etc.). Compare earlier Mammonitish adj., mammonist n.

= mammonist n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > gaining or amassing money > devotion to > follower of

mammonist1548

Mammonite1712

1712 E. Ward Misc. Writ. III. ii. 55 Your Hands are the Mammonites that convey unlawful Gain out of other Peoples Pockets into your own Till.

1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man III. 263 The gold failed, and the mammonites vanished.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. x. 155 It suits the venal Mammonite press..to jumble them together.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud i. xii, in Maud & Other Poems 7 When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee.

1861 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 120 [They] are said to be invaded by the mammonite spirit.

1995 Herald (Glasgow) 11 Feb. (Weekender Suppl.) 22 It may be as well to see them [sc. Wren churches] when (with some help from the Mammonites of City finance) most of them are still open.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mammonite
释义	Mammoniten. Brit. /ˈmamənʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈmæmənaɪt/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Mammon n., -ite suffix¹. Etymology: < Mammon n. + -ite suffix¹, probably after biblical ethnonyms such as Ammonite (Deuteronomy 2:20, etc.). Compare earlier Mammonitish adj., mammonist n. = mammonist n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] > gaining or amassing money > devotion to > follower of mammonist1548 Mammonite1712 1712 E. Ward Misc. Writ. III. ii. 55 Your Hands are the Mammonites that convey unlawful Gain out of other Peoples Pockets into your own Till. 1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man III. 263 The gold failed, and the mammonites vanished. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. x. 155 It suits the venal Mammonite press..to jumble them together. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud i. xii, in Maud & Other Poems 7 When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee. 1861 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 120 [They] are said to be invaded by the mammonite spirit. 1995 Herald (Glasgow) 11 Feb. (Weekender Suppl.) 22 It may be as well to see them [sc. Wren churches] when (with some help from the Mammonites of City finance) most of them are still open. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1712
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