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lucre
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synonyms: mammon, pelf, ~rhino, ~spondulics ???
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Definition:money, referred to disdainfully
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he had never appreciated the value and the marvellous power of mere money, of the lucre which philosophers pretend to despise and men sell their souls for.
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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The said Doctor is so much pleased with the discovery already made by the help of this Instrument, that he thinks it to be one of the most wonderful that ever was in the World, if we speak of strangeness, and just wonder, and of Philosophical importance, separate from the interest of lucre. For (saith he in one of his Letters) who could ever expect, that we men should find an Art, to weigh all the Air that hangs over our heads, in all the changes of it, and, as it were, to weigh, and to distinguish by weight, the Winds and the Clouds?
The Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies,and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume I (1666)
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as for the lucre of gain, I renounce it—I have done no more than my duty
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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Moreover, I do not choose that the gitanas should lose, through my fault, the reputation they have had for long ages of being greedy of lucre.
Miguel de Cervantes. La gitanilla.
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neither had pure lucre ever come to the fore.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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Not, he parenthesised, that for the sake of filthy lucre he need necessarily embrace the lyric platform as a walk in life for any lengthy space of time.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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