mammonolatry

English

Alternative forms

• Mammonolatry

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mæməˈnɑlət͡ʃɹi/

Noun

mammonolatry (uncountable)

1. The worship of money.
   • 1912, Georges Chatterton-Hill, The Sociological Value of Christianity, page 135:

     If mammonolatry has corrupted family life; if the tendency to see in marriage a mere business matter, a mere financial transaction, has degraded the institution, and obscured the notion of the fundamental social import of the latter; […]