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The greedy pursuit of riches.
Quotes:
We will bring to mind a young man or young womanbitterly awakened from a fancy dream ofaccomplishment, action or glory, forced instead tocome to terms with a considerably reduced status, abetrayed love, and a hideously bourgeois world ofcrass mammonism and philistine taste.
-- Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Claiming mutual “affection and confidence” with hiscollaborating reader whom he expects to agree,Dickens also indicts the false religion of Mammonism.
-- Linda M. Lewis, Dickens, His Parables, and HisReaders
Origin:
Mammonism is an odd combination of Aramaic andGreek. The word mammon meant wealth in Aramaic, and the suffix -ism forms a noun from a verb, asin criticism and plagiarism.
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