Category:Lucre

Lu"cre, n. Etym: [F. lucre, L. lucrum.]

Defn: Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense. The lust of lucre and the dread of death. Pope.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Lucre - From the Lat. lucrum, "gain." 1 Timothy 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.