usance

Example Sentences

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Everything in it, tolerable or intolerable, will have but one use; and that use what our ancestors used to call usance or usury.

From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.

From William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground by Surtees, Scott

Item, I have made you over by exchange with Benynge Decasonn, Lombard, 180 nobles sterling, payable at usance.

From Medieval People by Power, Eileen Edna

Equally good house usance would cost more in nearly all towns, and much more in larger cities.

From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Fetter, Frank Albert

When the steed recovered, bold Siegfried took on a frightful usance in the fray.

From The Nibelungenlied by Shumway, Daniel Bussier