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Definition of usury:

  • (noun) an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest
  • (noun) the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest

Sentence Examples:

When is usury sinful?

The rich exact usury.

Mind you, usury is interest.

Should usury laws be abolished?

Should usury laws be repealed?

Practicing usury is not working.

"To prohibit usury is revolutionary."

Well, usury was a sin.

Such are laws against usury.

Do they keep the usury laws?

"She has done so with usury."

Insecurity is the parent of usury.

Excessive interest is known as "usury."

You have repaid your debt with usury.

Is it a question of usury or interest?

Paul usury was another thing entirely.

The goods were back with usury.

The second method is by usury.

I am not so clear on your usury.

By usury and robbing the poor.

Note especially his absolute law against usury.

The prohibition of usury is systematically violated.

What is the usual penalty for usury?

In one word, he regards usury as normal.

Devour not usury, doubling it again and again!

I shall have mine own again with usury.

He does not regard usury as a sin.

He was dodging the law against usury.

These conditions do not prove usury right.

Another woman screamed; "coming to collect usury!"

Here we must pause a moment to define usury.

What kind of usury or interest is lawful?

The usury of lands is on the increase.

Precisely analogous is Smith's position concerning usury laws.

The writer is illustrating his opinion on usury.

Free loans would cause the disappearance of usury.

The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great.

Was usury not forbidden under great penalty?

Is the gaining of money by usury unlawful?

I will pay it back with large usury.

How do you prove that moderate usury is lawful?

He has therefore let it out at large usury.

"So that is the usury I am to pay?"

If this be usury, it is lawful and right.

I pray you let us leave off this usury.

To put money to usury; to lend on interest.

Their prices were unjust and they loved usury.

Believe me, national redemption is not an affair of usury.

Great and benign enterprises are possible without usury.

After many days, it shall return with usury.

The opponents of usury have not always been wise.

What penalty is imposed upon national banks for usury?

Would it not have the effect of excessive usury?

They resisted Willis's claim upon the plea of usury.

Is it any wonder that usury is eating up France?

I will give up the usury, even the public house!

They possessed estates by fraud and multiplied usury.

Beyond the grave will usury pay the smart

They enriched themselves by usury, and enjoyed monopolies.

Interest was the same as usury and was illegal.

In this manner he applies the text against usury.

This transaction does not come within the usury laws.

He would make the very elemental laws pay usury.

There was no disposition to overlook the offense of usury.

Therefore, to speak of the abolishing of usury is idle.

This is a clear recognition of usury as unjust gain.

It is perhaps significant that nothing was said about usury.

He who gives money at usury, what does he profit?

There can be no freedom so long as usury endures.

Wherein then consists the security of laws against usury?

They return to their master his own with usury.

Herein the methods of usury were exposed in a fierce light.

Now he began to walk the terrible ways of usury.

By usury the taxes are easily slipped upon the poor.

Plato opposed usury, but he does not give extended reasons.

He who gives freely is wont to repay with usury.

For one so ignorant of usury, this was not bad.

Escobar found a way to justify this kind of usury.

It is a base usury to regard a benefit as an investment.

No investment exacts such cruel usury as indifference to injustice.

And they say also that usury is no deadly sin.

What I have robbed I return, and return with usury.

The reader will notice that the definition of usury is defective.

Time is therefore claimed to be a ground for usury charges.

The usury in the market is no longer to be endured.

He returned the grip with usury and looked his admiration.

In the Dover statutes trading and usury were strictly forbidden.

What is given for them will come back with usury.

Ranch after ranch falls away under usury or unjust decisions.

Perhaps he may yet pay back the loan with usury.

If usury is the enemy, the remedy is to fight usury.

Do away with usury and the problem of poverty is solved.

It would require volumes to fully present the history of usury.

Once more the scene changes back to their den of usury.

On the meaning of usury, I would add a few words.

Trade might now be practiced, but usury was to be avoided.

Great deeds are great legacies, and work with wondrous usury.

Do away with usury and there is a natural limitation to riches.

The customary usury of genius was paid for the verbal loan.

Again, are laws against witchcraft more absurd than laws against usury?