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usury
English
Etymology
From Middle English usurie, from Latin ?s?ria, from ?s?ra (“lending at interest, usury”) from ?sus (“use”), from stem of ?t? (“to use”). Compare usurp and use.
Pronunciation
- enPR: yo?o'zh?-r?, IPA(key): /?ju????i/
Noun
usury (countable and uncountable, plural usuries)
- (countable) An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.
- (uncountable) The practice of lending money at such rates.
- (uncountable, archaic) The practice of lending money at interest.
- 4th Century BCE, Template:rftranslator Aristotle, Politics, Book I, Part X,
- "The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest."
- 4th Century BCE, Template:rftranslator Aristotle, Politics, Book I, Part X,
Synonyms
- oker
Related terms
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “usury”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Middle English
Noun
usury
- Alternative form of usurie
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usurance
English
Noun
usurance (plural usurances)
- The act of usury
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