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- noun Plural form of
cozening .
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Examples
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I, and all of us, that these be falsities and cozenings. '
The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906
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Be dumb, be dumb for ever; let the false charm that dwells upon thy tongue, be ended with my life: let it no more undo believing man, lest amongst the number some one may conquer thee, and deaf to all thy wit, and blind to beauty, in some mad passion think of all thy cozenings, should fall upon thee, and forget thy sex, and by thy death revenge the lost _Octavio_. '
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister Aphra Behn 1664
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