Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Practising usury; usurious.
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Examples
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"Always assuming that -usuring" is a word, I don't see where he gets that bit; you haven't any money to lend.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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Soone were the newes spread throughout Salerne; that Ruggiero was apprehended, about robbing the house of the two usuring
The Decameron 2004
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If not a usuring kindness, and, as rich men deal gifts,
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If not a usuring kindness and as rich men deal gifts,
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When he has undone my lady and Conscience too with his usuring.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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If not a usuring kindness, and, as rich men deal gifts,
Timon of Athens 1607
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1980: Marry this it is -- A usuring Father to be boyling in hell,
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