sextillionaire

plural sextillionaires

1. Somebody whose wealth is at least one sextillion (10²¹) currency units.

   I am the only sextillionaire in Eternity.

   1905 April 9, “Letters the Insane Write. Large Projects That Occupy the Minds of the Demented Are Put Down on Paper.”, in The Pittsburg Post, Pittsburgh, Pa., page 7

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   He’s the Credit Mobilier; the Credit Foncier; the prospective sextillionaire; the next President of the United States; the embodiment of Internationale; a huge Syndicate; a blase traveler, who has seen this little world, and who aspires to a jaunt over Saturn and adjacent planets.

   1871 November 19, “Train. A Second Characteristic Talk at Masonic Hall.”, in Republican Banner, volume 58, number 275, Nashville, Tenn., column 3

   They supply the field for ambition and for amusement to a large majority of people, for it is a fact which we are apt to forget that the American nation is not a handful of politicians or journalists, nor yet the baker’s dozen of sextillionaires, nor even the women young men in the large cities who lead the fashion, but the innumerable small farmers, the mechanics and the gentry of small inland towns.

   1884 August 30, “Country Fairs”, in The Cecil Whig, volume XLIII, number 2,168 (whole), Elkton, Md.

   My husband pointed her out to me first as the daughter of the great Baltimore sextillionaire.

   1886, “Fir Tree Bower”, in A Boston Girl; a Story of Boston, Bar Harbor, and Paris, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Belford, Clarke & Co., page 110

   The editor of the New York Independent on receipt of such a chain letter written in behalf of an injured railroad man turned it over to an expert accountant, who discovered that if every other branch of the letter had gone as far as that received by the editor, the employe in question would be a “sextillionaire,” possessing more wealth by far than the total estimated wealth of the globe.

   1916 May 10, “The Easiest Way of Raising Money”, in The Decatur Herald, volume 35, number 215, Decatur, Ill., page 6

   One of the patients, in the early stages of paresis, addressed the assemblage, and in the time allotted to him he was unable to portray fully his conception of his wealth and his own personal puissance, so great were his grandiose ideas. He had become a billionaire, a trillionaire, a sextillionaire; he had thousands of wives, millions of children, and in an ordinary day through the work of a million men, each with a million hands, he had constructed a concrete bridge across the Atlantic.

   1929 November, “Human Behavior”, in James K. Hall, editor, Southern Medicine and Surgery, volume XCI, number 11, Charlotte, N.C., section “Psychiatry Outside the Walls”, page 804, column 1