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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

lucre

, L.

lucrum

Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; – often in an ill sense.

The lust of

lucre

and the dread of death.

Pope.

Noun.

lu'ker. [L. lucrum.] Gain in money or goods; profit; usually in an ill sense, or with the sense of something base or unworthy.

The lust of lucre, and the dread of death.

A bishop must be blameless - not given to filthy lucre. Titus 1.

See also: lucre

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