millionism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

million +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

millionism (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Synonym of millionairehood
    • 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny:
      Billionism, or even millionism, must be a blessed kind of state, with health and clear conscience and youth and good looks, […]
    • 1885, Washington Gladden, Working People and Their Employers, page 183:
      A keen article about our millionaires, in a recent magazine, closed by giving some of the indispensable conditions of attaining to millionism; and these are three of them: […]
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