Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being usurious.
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Examples
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The clerk consented to come out when he perceived that he was being asked for by an old lady who was too infirm to walk; after which the Grandmother began to upbraid him at length, and with great vehemence, for his alleged usuriousness, and to bargain with him in a mixture of Russian, French, and German — I acting as interpreter.
The Gambler 2003
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Bull, as I may say, stuffed naked -- his greed, his usuriousness, his hypocrisy, his perfidy of the back-stairs, all swelled to the superlative -- such as was well worth the little disarray and fluster of our passage in the hall.
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Grandmother began to upbraid him at length, and with great vehemence, for his alleged usuriousness, and to bargain with him in a mixture of
The Gambler Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851
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