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LUCRE (Lat. lucrum, gain; the Indo-Eu...

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 106 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCRE (See also:Lat. lucrum, gain; the Indo-See also:European See also:root is seen in Gr. anoTavew, to enjoy, and in Ger. Lohn, See also:wages)  , a See also:term now only used in the disparaging sense of unworthy profit, or See also:money that is the See also:object of greed, especially in the expression " filthy See also:lucre " (I Tim. iii . 3) . In the See also:adjective " lucrative," profitable, there is, however, no sense of disparagement . In Scots See also:law the term " lucrative See also:succession " (lucrativa acquisilio) is used of the taking by an See also:heir, during the lifetime of his ancestor, of a See also:free See also:grant of any See also:part of the heritable See also:property .

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