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- noun Plural form of
cozenage .
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Examples
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For although all that my adversary hath spoken be of a very soft and downy truth, in so much as concerns the letter and history of the factum, yet nevertheless the crafty slights, cunning subtleties, sly cozenages, and little troubling entanglements are hid under the rosepot, the common cloak and cover of all fraudulent deceits.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Is it not better to hear their controversy from their own mouths whilst they are face to face before us, than to read these vile fopperies, which are nothing but trumperies, deceits, diabolical cozenages of Cepola, pernicious slights and subversions of equity?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For although all that my adversary hath spoken be of a very soft and downy truth, in so much as concerns the letter and history of the factum, yet nevertheless the crafty slights, cunning subtleties, sly cozenages, and little troubling entanglements are hid under the rosepot, the common cloak and cover of all fraudulent deceits.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Is it not better to hear their controversy from their own mouths whilst they are face to face before us, than to read these vile fopperies, which are nothing but trumperies, deceits, diabolical cozenages of Cepola, pernicious slights and subversions of equity?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Page 36 serve for the resort and refuge of masterles men and other idle and evill dispozed persons, and are the cause of cozenages, thefts, and other dishonest conversacion and may also be used to cover dangerous practizes.
Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994
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No need to labour that point; cozenages could be attempted by friends who wished to keep track of him just as easily as by foes.
The Alamut Ambush Price, Anthony 1971
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See yourself an advised consumer on "Advanced Fee Load" Scams, and expression out for the signs, when these cozenages regrettably do their manner to you.
Managing Your Credit Card Bailey 2010
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Many of them are, arguably, not cozenages at all, but let's just name them credit card offers involving consumer unfriendly terms.
Managing Your Credit Card Bailey 2010
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See yourself an advised consumer on "Advanced Fee Load" Scams, and expression out for the signs, when these cozenages regrettably do their manner to you.
Managing Your Credit Card Bailey 2010
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Many of them are, arguably, not cozenages at all, but let's just name them credit card offers involving consumer unfriendly terms.
Managing Your Credit Card Bailey 2010
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