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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Philotime

The word means lover of honour. The presiding Queen of Hell, and daughter of Mammon. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, ii.)

And fair Philotime, the rightly hight,
The fairest wight that wonneth under sky.

Book ii. canto vii.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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