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mammon

mammon

1 9.9
Wealth that people worship and that makes them act badly
  • noun
  • /ˈmæmən/
  • Literature
: mamón
  • In many cultures, people often prioritize mammon over spiritual values.
  • God and mammon

Their motives were indeed God and taking God out in the world, but their motives were also mammon and material.

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Examples

  • Mammon rules all the way up to the White House.

    Blog text (5)

  • You cannot love me and mammon both; you will love one and hate the other.

    Blog text (30)

  • You cannot serve God and mammon.

    Blog text (10)

  • The battle lines have pretty much been drawn; who will you serve, God or mammon?

    Blog text (2)

  • We worship mammon, not God.

    Blog text (33)

  • Conscientious historians distinguish lovers of mammon from lovers of truth.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The schools will succeed only when we learn to value education because it enriches our lives and when we believe that an hour spent reading to a child is more rewarding than an hour spent pursuing mammon.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The speech concludes memorably by asserting that the doctrine that all men are created equal, and the idea of counting slavery as a "sacred right of self-government," are "as opposite as God and mammon."

    Academic text (2001)

  • It condemns the rampant commodification of knowledge as simply another instance of mammon worship cloaked in the garb of advancing knowledge.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The church warned its followers about the dangers of worshiping mammon instead of God.

Synonyms

wealth
vsmammon
56 1.9

A large amount of useful things or ideas that someone has

is seen as morally corrupting and often worshipped for its own sake

Antonyms

poverty
584 2.0

A situation of having very little money and few things

selflessness
13 3.9

To care more about other people's needs than your own

Surface Forms

mammon singular
mammones plural

Etymology

The word mammon comes from an old Aramaic and Hebrew word mamon meaning 'wealth', and in the Bible it was shown as a false god or power that people could put before what is right. So, to serve mammon today means to put money and material things before what really matters, which is why the word means riches that can corrupt.