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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ma·te·ri·al·ism n.
 1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets; called also philosophical materialism.
    The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.   --Buckminster.
 2. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests as contrasted with spiritual concerns; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
 3. Material substances in the aggregate; matter. [R. & Obs.]
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ma·te·ri·al·ist n.
 1. One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.  A believer in philosophical materialism.
 2. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it.
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