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Definition of Material possession
1. Noun. Property or belongings that are tangible.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Material Possession
Literary usage of Material possession
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Man and His Money by Harvey Reeves Calkins (1914)
"First, the holding of some material possession means the possible ownership of
value. We say "possible ownership," for a man may possess some material thing ..."
2. Essays on Art by Max Weber (1916)
"material possession is an outsideness. Spiritual or art consciousness is an inside-
... material possession is finite; spiritual consciousness is infinite. ..."
3. Selected Quotations on Peace and War: With Especial Reference to a Course of by Commission on Christian Education (1915)
"The crude rivalry of material possession which is one of the ear-marks of
patriotism, has no counterpart among civilized adult individuals. ..."
4. Memorials of Thomas Davidson: The Wandering Scholar by William Angus Knight (1907)
"... IN NEW YORK In considering this subject, I shall set out with two assumptions :
first, that human life does not consist in material possession ; second, ..."
5. The Christian Science Journal by Mary Baker Eddy (1912)
"In this way any apparent material possession can be traced to a mental power
behind it which is the real source of supply. The thought then presents itself ..."
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