(or almighty-money, [American] almighty-dollar), subs. phr. (old).—The power or worship of money; Mammon.
1616. JONSON, Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.
| Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, | |
| And almost every vice, ALMIGHTIE gold. |
1706. FARQUHAR, The Recruiting Officer, iii. 2. In what shape was the ALMIGHTY gold transformed that has bribed you so much in his favour?
1839. IRVING, Wolfert’s Roost: A Creole Village, 40. The ALMIGHTY DOLLAR, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotee in these peculiar villages.
1857. BORTHWICK, Three Years in California, 165. The ALMIGHTY DOLLAR exerted a still more powerful influence than in the old States, for it overcame all pre-existing false notions of dignity.
1876. BESANT and RICE, The Golden Butterfly, xxii. Genius … is apt to be careless of the main chance. I don’t care for the ALMIGHTY DOLLAR; it lets fellows like me heap up the stamps.
1886. G. SUTHERLAND, Australia, 102. The travelling Yankee, with an overweening confidence in the ‘ALMIGHTY DOLLAR.’
