different between cosenage vs cozenage

English

Noun

cosenage (countable and uncountable, plural cosenages)

1. Alternative form of cozenage

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.