usance
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
I'll lend no money gratis and bring down the rate of usance.
From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Charles Major
It means a certain time fixed by custom as between any two places, and the period covered by a usance will therefore depend on the places of drawing and payment.
From The Gentleman's Model Letter-writer A Complete Guide to Correspondence on All Subjects, with Commercial Forms by Anonymous
He knew that a debt to folly bears no grace, and was ready with his principal and usance.
From When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Charles Major
I heard that there followed hard on the jewels Two braces of stallions of striking resemblance, 20 Dappled and yellow; he granted him usance Of horses and treasures.
From Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by Lesslie Hall
And two usance is two months; reckoning not from the acceptance of the bill, but from the date of it.
From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe
