different between cheating vs cozenage

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i?t??/

Verb

cheating

1. present participle of cheat

Noun

cheating (countable and uncountable, plural cheatings)

1. An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.
   • 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Disowned

     the cheatings and impositions of your pitiful trade

2. (cinematography) The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location.
   • 1965, Joseph V. Mascelli, The Five C’s of Cinematography.

     Cheating is the sixth C of Cinematography ... it is the art of arranging people, objects or actions, during filming or editing

Translations

Adjective

cheating (comparative more cheating, superlative most cheating)

1. Unsporting or underhand.
2. Unfaithful or adulterous.

See also

• Cheating in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

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English

Etymology

cozen +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?z?n?d?/

Noun

cozenage (countable and uncountable, plural cozenages)

1. The fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception.
   • 1896, Frederick Locker-Lampson, My Confidences, An Autobiographical Sketch Addressed to my Descendants (London: Smith, Elder & Co.), pp 413–14.

     I ask you, What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with a baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter tomorrow?

2. An instance of cozening; a scam.
   • 1646, John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea, Letter I, reprinted in The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays (Dublin: O. Nelson, 1766), p. 109:

     When I receive your Lines, my dear Princess, and find there Expressions of a Passion; though Reason and my own Immerit tell me, it must not be for me; yet is the Cozenage so pleasing to me, that I (brib'd by my own Desires) believe them still before the other.