mammon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim The desire for wealth personified as an evil spirit or a malign influence.

   “No man can ſerue two maſters: for either he will hate the one and loue the other, or elſe hee will holde to the one, and deſpiſe the other. Ye cannot ſerue God and Mammon.”

2. özel isim Often mammon: wealth, material avarice, profit.

   “The proper sphere of the church, after all, was the kingdom of God, not greedy earthbound kingdoms of mammon, which should be left to temporal authorities to rule and squabble over.”

3. özel isim Alternative letter-case form of Mammon (“wealth, material avarice”).