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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lucre \Lu"cre\, n. [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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
lucre
n 1: informal terms for money [syn: {shekels}, {gelt}, {dough}, {bread},
{dinero}, {loot}, {pelf}, {moolah}, {cabbage}, {kale}]
2: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of
time [syn: {net income}, {net}, {net profit}, {profit}, {profits},
{earnings}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Lucre
from the Lat. lucrum "gain." 1 Tim. 3:3, "not given to filthy
lucre." Some MSS. have not the word so rendered, and the
expression has been omitted in the Revised Version.
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