Word Meanings - MAMMONISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness. Carlyle.

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• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• WEALTHINESS
  The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.
• WEALTHFUL
  Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. Sir T. More. -- Wealth"ful*ly, adv.
• DEVOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
• WEALTHILY
  In a wealthy manner; richly. I come to wive it wealthily in Padua. Shak.
• WORLDLINESS
  The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.
• PURSUIT
  Prosecution. That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court. Fuller. Curve of pursuit , a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according
• DEVOTION
  1. The act of devoting; consecration. 2. The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated
• DEVOTIONALITY
  The practice of a devotionalist. A. H. Clough.
• WEALTHY
  1. Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich. A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. Shak. Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. Ps. lxvi. 12. 2. Hence, ample;
• DEVOTIONALIST; DEVOTIONIST
  One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion.
• WEALTH
  1. Weal; welfare; prosperity; good. "Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth." 1 Cor. x. 24. 2. Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence;
• SELF-DEVOTION
  The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
• MISDEVOTION
  Mistaken devotion.
• UNDEVOTION
  Absence or want of devotion.
• INDEVOTION
  Want of devotion; impiety; irreligion. "An age of indevotion." Jer. Taylor.