Lucre
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Lucre, from the Lat. lucrum, meaning gain in money or goods; profit; riches; wealth within the nation, often in a negative sense.
Often it is used in a negative, as in the phrase “not given to filthy lucre” from the Bible.
From this, the term "filthy lucre" became slang for money.
The term is also the root of the word lucrative.
The novel The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan has a hill called Lucre where the character Demas, a deceiver, beckons to pilgrims to come and join in the supposed silver mining going on in it.
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- Filthy Lucre Live is a live album from the Sex Pistols
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