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Definitionn. an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest
Last update: March 18, 2017
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His father made money from the business of usury. [noun]
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His second homily contains a denunciation of usury which has become famous. [noun]
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Jeremy Bentham filed a cogent brief against the impolicy of usury laws. [noun]
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I shall recover the large estates, that would now be mine, but for usury and fraud. [noun]
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"Rent," says Bossuet, "is as far from usury as heaven is from the earth." [noun]
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The Church--the teacher of morality, so jealous and so proud of the purity of her doctrine--has always been ignorant of the real nature of property and usury. [noun]
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"] [Footnote 28: It would be interesting and profitable to review the authors who have written on usury, or, to use the gentler expression which some prefer, lendingat interest." [noun]
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Their writings are filled with burning curses upon this crime of usury, of which Christians are not always innocent. [noun]
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Strategy, violence, and usury,--such are the proprietor's methods of plundering the laborer. [noun]
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The encroachment of large proprietors upon small proprietors, by the aid of usury, farm-rent, and profits of all sorts, was common throughout the empire. [noun]
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Moses and Jesus Christ proscribed, under the names of usury and inequality, [50] all sorts of profit and increase. [noun]
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