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Word For The Day, Thursday, June 20, 2013 – plutolatry
dictionaries ad nauseam
| 20 June 2013
| Thursday's sub
Posted on 06/20/2013 6:25:28 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
plutolatry (ploo-TOL-uh-tree) noun
Excessive devotion to wealth.
Example sentence:
"He said this reflected the 'appearance of unbridled avarice -- the flowering of plutolatry'."
--John F. Copper & Ta-ling Lee; Coping With a Bad Global Image; University Press of America; 1997.
Etymology:
From Greek pluto- (wealth) + -latry (worship). Earliest documented use: 1891. Pluto was the god of riches in Greek mythology.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The man who dies rich dies disgraced. -Andrew Carnegie, industrialist (1835-1919)
To: secret garden; Fierce Allegiance; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; ...
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:27:07 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:27:29 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
idol worship of a disney character
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:27:59 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
Brilliant post! A+ for you! What's up with Goofy owning a dog?
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:28:57 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: secret garden
plutolaty is no longer an excessive devotion to wealth, it is now merely a dwarf devotion to wealth...
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:29:37 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: secret garden
chan thinks she owns Jules!
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:29:44 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
Vince Flynn and James Gandolfini, seems we should await a third.
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:34:34 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
The left decries right-wing plutolatry
They prefer devils: diabolatry
So what are the odds
The Obama’s are gods?
They bask in the mindless idolatry
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:44:17 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: xsmommy
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:46:02 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
To: xsmommy
Slim Whitman died yesterday.
Gandolfini was the third.
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:46:47 AM PDT
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NeoCaveman
(DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
To: NeoCaveman
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:47:54 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
Vince Flynn and James Gandolfini, seems we should await a third.Well, we lost a wonderful conservative and then a liberal who was a wonderful actor. I guess we should anticipate an independent meeting his maker.
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:47:54 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: NeoCaveman
Slim Whitman died yesterday.So we lost a conservative, a liberal, and a yodeler.
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06/20/2013 6:49:12 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration Uof Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: secret garden
This is not good news for the practioners of
plutolatry.
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:53:53 AM PDT
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NeoCaveman
(DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
To: secret garden
"The coup d'etat does more than worships money.
It also worships their control of its redistribution.
To: camle
Excellent! A+ for you!
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posted on
06/20/2013 7:12:04 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
A+ for you!
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posted on
06/20/2013 7:13:06 AM PDT
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secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: NeoCaveman
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06/20/2013 7:14:08 AM PDT
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secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
To: Diogenesis
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06/20/2013 7:15:34 AM PDT
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secret garden
(Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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