cozenage
Example Sentences
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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hope never stooped to falser cozenage; we were to be rudely undeceived.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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)
Their system of cozenage is not only applied to persons outside the profession, from whom they expect material gains; it is always at work to take in and delude the members of the guild.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo
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