cozenage
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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.
From Time Magazine Archive
And when I deliver the Yale lectures to young ministers, I shall tell them that there is a blessed guile, a holy cozenage of the heart whereby they may win their people's souls by stealth.
From St. Cuthbert's by Knowles, Robert E.
And thou art grown expert in this sort of cozenage.
From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
But all these are trifles in comparison, if we step into other scenes, and consider the fraud and cozenage of trading men and shopkeepers; that insatiable gulf of injustice and oppression, the law.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan
His art is nothing but delightful cozenage, whose rules are smoothing and guarded with perjury; whose scope is to make men fools in teaching them to overvalue themselves, and to tickle his friends to death.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
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