Citations:plutophile
English citations of plutophile
Noun: a person who loves wealth
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William Hamilton Jefferys (1910) The Diseases of China, including Formosa and Korea[1], page 589 of 716: “We believe that we have never yet met a human being who placed money getting [sic] more supremely above every other worldly consideration than did this human plutophile.”
Jon Winokur (1996) The rich are different (business and economics), →ISBN, page 131 of 248: “Leacn, Robin A British-born plutophile who has been dubbed “the Gulliver of Glitz” for his tireless peregrinations as the Champagne-wishes-and-caviar-dreams-host of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, a nationally syndicated chronicle...”
Adam Nicolson (2010) Sissinghurst, an Unfinished History: The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West's Legendary Garden[2] (gardening), →ISBN, page 341:- It would be difficult to imagine a more powerful stimulus to the imagination than this: Knole, loneliness, the flamenco brilliance of the Spanish-gypsy-dancing gene, dusty brocades, the looming portraits, the charm and volatility of her seductive, pluotophile, intemperate mother, the mulch of Englishness, the bade of illegitimacy only a generation back...