mammon

Example Sentences

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But there are signs in 2020 that mammon is making a comeback.

From The Guardian • Sep. 13, 2020

A: Some of the most prominent modernist structures are churches and banks, which, in regard to what you are designing for, are almost opposites: God and mammon.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2017

As ever, faith follows mammon, and mammon, faith.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2016

But for Peter Salovey, the president of Yale University, the conference's obsession with the present, and with mammon, is short-sighted.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2016

O love of self, and mammon lust,     Twin portals to despair, Where bigotry, the blinded bat,     Flaps through the midnight air!

From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Whitney, Orson F.