usance
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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
Still, like a spreading ulcer, which leech-craft may not cure, Let your foul usance eat away the substance of the poor.
From Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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
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 Scott Surtees
Item, I have made you over by exchange with Benynge Decasonn, Lombard, 180 nobles sterling, payable at usance.
From Medieval People by Eileen Edna Power
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