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usurer

noun as in banker

noun as in lender

noun as in loan shark

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noun as in pawnbroker

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As Exodus 22:25 states: “If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.”

Khushnud Dado and Farrukh Vaitov were in town to perform a play called "The Death of the Usurer" by famous Tajik writer Sadriddin Ayni, news website Sugdnews says.

From BBC

As Exodus 22:25 states: “If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.”

“Totentanz” is based on a 15th-century frieze in Lübeck, Germany, that was destroyed during World War II. It illustrated with text Death moving down the social scale as he danced with pope, emperor, cardinal, king, monk, knight, mayor, doctor, usurer, merchant, clerk, hand worker, peasant, maiden and child.

For “Merchant,” which begins performances at the Tina Packer Playhouse on Friday, July 1, she reconceives a play she staged for the troupe in 1998, with the same actor, Jonathan Epstein, playing the much-maligned usurer Shylock.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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