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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
When the steed recovered, bold Siegfried took on a frightful usance in the fray.
From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway
The plea of long usance would avail him little; another fine would be imposed.
From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
The usance of wealth and the service of laborers at the moment rendered constitute forms of income.
From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Frank Albert Fetter
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
