different between usurial vs usuress
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:
usuress
English
Etymology
usure +? -ess
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ju??????s/, /?ju?zj????s/
Noun
usuress (plural usuresses)
- (rare) A female usurer.
- That woman — that usuress — only lent me £20, but expected £50 back after just one week!
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:usuress.
Synonyms
- loan shark
Related terms
- usurer
- usurial
- usurious
- usury
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usuress From the web:
- what usurers do nyt crossword clue
- what usurers do crossword
- what usurers do nyt crossword
- what insurers do
- what usurers do crossword clue
- what usurers do ny times crossword
- usurers meaning
- what are usurers damned for
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