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[Bo-4]

Might come in handy when grasping for a word to describe JackCon. ;-)

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Word of the Day for Thursday, February 16, 2012

mammonism \MAM-uh-niz-uhm\, noun:

The greedy pursuit of riches.

We will bring to mind a young man or young woman bitterly awakened from a fancy dream of accomplishment, action or glory, forced instead to come to terms with a considerably reduced status, a betrayed love, and a hideously bourgeois world of crass mammonism and philistine taste.

-- Rudyard Kipling, Kim

Claiming mutual “affection and confidence” with his collaborating reader whom he expects to agree, Dickens also indicts the false religion of Mammonism.

-- Linda M. Lewis, Dickens, His Parables, and His Readers

Mammonism is an odd combination of Aramaic and Greek. The word mammon meant wealth in Aramaic, and the suffix -ism

 

[Craig]

Might come in handy when grasping for a word to describe JackCon. ;-)

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Word of the Day for Thursday, February 16, 2012

mammonism \MAM-uh-niz-uhm\, noun:

The greedy pursuit of riches.

We will bring to mind a young man or young woman bitterly awakened from a fancy dream of accomplishment, action or glory, forced instead to come to terms with a considerably reduced status, a betrayed love, and a hideously bourgeois world of crass mammonism and philistine taste.

-- Rudyard Kipling, Kim

Claiming mutual “affection and confidence” with his collaborating reader whom he expects to agree, Dickens also indicts the false religion of Mammonism.

-- Linda M. Lewis, Dickens, His Parables, and His Readers

Mammonism is an odd combination of Aramaic and Greek. The word mammon meant wealth in Aramaic, and the suffix -ism

And to use in a sentence:

Donald Trump...as shown by the garishness of his living quarters, is a leader of the mammonist movement.

 

[Bo-4]

And to use in a sentence:

Donald Trump...as shown by the garishness of his living quarters, is a leader of the mammonist movement.

I like the way they refer to it as a false Religion. That seems particularly appropriate. The Donald can come in as their guest pastor!

 

[Craig]

I like the way they refer to it as a false Religion. That seems particularly appropriate. The Donald can come in as their guest pastor!

Yep...God as profit...

 

[Barbella]

Nothing like painting with a very broad brush, is there, bo?

 

[Bo-4]

Nothing like painting with a very broad brush, is there, bo?

How so Barbarella? You folks spend half the day defending millionaires.

 

[RickWA]

Everyone knows COVETOUSNESS is vastly preferable. ;-)

 

[RickWA]

Defending them from the envious attacks of the covetous parasitic hordes ;-)

 

[888888]

We could go to a new word righty's!

santorum (san-TOR-um) n.


1. The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter
that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.