millionism

noun

millionism

noun

Etymology From million + -ism.

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Archaic Synonym of millionairehood.

  • Billionism, or even millionism, must be a blessed kind of state, with health and clear conscience and youth and good looks, […]1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny:
  • 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: […]1885, Washington Gladden, Working People and Their Employers, page 183:

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