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  • noun Plural form of moneylender.

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  • Comments (1) 1 Comment what about the carbon con, Jesus and the moneylenders might be angle you might want to explore.

    Copenhagen Climate Conference: run by anti-Christmas bigots « Anglican Samizdat 2009

  • These peasants were thinking of popular risings on the pattern of all the risings in the history of China -- attacks on the towns and the killing of the hated landowners, officials, and moneylenders, that is to say of the gentry.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • Governments are, however, severely strapped for funds and have little choice but to agree to the conditionalities of the new "moneylenders".

    Archive 2004-06-01 2004

  • He also paid off the debts his soldiers had accumulated over the last few years from moneylenders, wine merchants, and prostitutes—no questions asked—even though it was a huge drain on the treasury.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Think of the man who preached poverty and threw the moneylenders out of the Temple, how he might react to a televangelist telathon, say.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • He also paid off the debts his soldiers had accumulated over the last few years from moneylenders, wine merchants, and prostitutes—no questions asked—even though it was a huge drain on the treasury.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The bank was established in the 1970s specifically for lending to self-employed women on low interest, so they're not indebted to moneylenders and make them financially independent.

    Betwa Sharma: Rural Women Turn Solar Energy Entrepreneurs in Indian Village Betwa Sharma 2011

  • I have no idea what I would say if someone asked me if I could categorically rule out the possibility that Jews tend to be greedy moneylenders.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past 2010

  • He also paid off the debts his soldiers had accumulated over the last few years from moneylenders, wine merchants, and prostitutes—no questions asked—even though it was a huge drain on the treasury.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • A popular Renaissance morality play had two Jewish moneylenders talking:

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

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