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MAMMON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit
Example:
ye cannot serve God and Mammon
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)
Domain category:
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Wealth regarded as an evil influence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("mammon" is a kind of...):
wealth; wealthiness (the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money)
