different between usurial vs usurer
usurial
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation)1 IPA(key): /ju???u????l/
- (Received Pronunciation)2 IPA(key): /ju??zju????l/
Adjective
usurial (not comparable)
- Pertaining to or constituting usury.
- 1846: Baynard Rust Hall, Something for Every Body: Gleaned in the Old Purchase, from Fields Often Reaped, p194
- Nay, even if all was strictly honest at a fair — but all is not fair even at a fair — there is no small quantum of whitish mendacity — hem! — and not a little very clever humbugging and usurial screwing!
- 1872: William Gifford Palgrave, Essays on Eastern questions, p157
- But their independence was lost centuries ago, and since that time commercial, and, I must add, usurial tendencies, with little aptitude for pastoral or agricultural pursuits, had been ever tending to remove them from the islands, and to accumulate them on coasts and in cities, often very far distant.
- 1967: Joseph Buttinger, Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled, p106
- The rich borrowed large sums at the low interest rates set for the poor and passed the money on to their old clientele at the customary usurial rates.
- 2004: Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice, p5
- In this way capital is deprived of its usurial power and is completely bound up with the performance of work.
- 1846: Baynard Rust Hall, Something for Every Body: Gleaned in the Old Purchase, from Fields Often Reaped, p194
Synonyms
- usurious
Related terms
- usurer
- usuress
usurial From the web:
usurer
English
Etymology
Anglo-Norman, from Old French usurier, Latin ?s?ra (“interest”).
- Compare usurper and use
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ju?????/, /?ju?zj???/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ju??????/, /?ju?????/
Noun
usurer (plural usurers)
- A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 4:
- Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
- So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
- 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, chapter XLIII
- "You can go to the Carpetbag usurers if you want money."
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 4:
Synonyms
- banker, loan shark
Hyponyms
- saraf (early modern Middle East & India), shroff (early modern India & SE Asia)
Related terms
- usuress (rare)
- usurial
- usurious
- usury
Translations
References
Anagrams
- rusure
Middle English
Noun
usurer
- Alternative form of usurere
Swedish
Noun
usurer
- indefinite plural of usur
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