usury

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The word usury was very odious to the Christian mind and conscience.

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  1. noun The practice of lending money and charging the borrower interest, especially at an exorbitant or illegally high rate.
  2. noun An excessive or illegally high rate of interest charged on borrowed money.
  3. noun Archaic Interest charged or paid on a loan.

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  • Not content to merely steal the wealth of the rest of mankind through usury, the Jews are determined to bury every Goy, as is clear from Deuteronomy, chapter 28, verses 12-13: —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • I like how Salmon frames this as "usury," which is essentially what it is-the bank is loaning you the amount you overdraw and charging you an astronomical interest rate for the privilege. —  CJR
  • Watching the news today and they just had Ron Insana talking on msnbc about a report in the Wall Street Journal about how banks are now raising fees on everything and, with some banks now charging up to 29\% interest rates, he used the term usury rates. —  Experience Manifesto
  • Huge spending on funding terrorism, Credit cards, usury, theft. —  The American Spectator
  • The same legislation also repealed the federal law prohibiting usury -- the predatory practices that ruin debtors of modest means by lending on terms that ensure borrowers will fail. —  The Nation: Top Stories
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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin ūsūria, alteration of Latin ūsūra, from ūsus, use; see usual.

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  1. Early modern English also usery; from Middle English usurie, usurye, from Old French *usurie, a collateral form of Old French usure, interest, usury: see usure.
 

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