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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:

Imperial courtesies cemented the bricks which usury, commerce, and diplomacy had laid so well.

This far-fetched argument against usury closes one of the most arid passages of the Comedy.

The vast accumulations of wealth, so sure to follow the operation of usury, was hitherto unknown.

Addition and multiplication were his favorite rules, and usury was the foundation of his good deeds.

Nations have often been ruined by usury, and this has been the cause of public destruction.

These great combines are the natural result of successful business with the practice of usury.

If sentiment acts upon imagination, we see that imagination returns with usury to sentiment what it gives.

In this country usury laws are fast yielding to the growth of intelligence in monetary affairs.

The prohibition of usury would be to the material advantage of the great mass of our people.

These animals constitute all their wealth, and repay with usury the care bestowed upon them.

The question of usury therefore attracted considerable attention in the teaching and practice of pagan antiquity.

As the relief afforded by property decreases, the oppressive burden of usury in present conditions increases.

Against this newly risen demon of authorized usury, Holbein and Botticelli went out to war together.

He who gives out money at usury loses it (if proved), and, moreover, incurs further punishment.

The contemplated law will also contain a provision which will make the recovery of usury possible.

Not exactly, but it is banking; and banking, it is quite true, is usury within legal bounds.

Certain writers have maintained that in this case usury was tolerated; but they can easily be refuted.

How do you prove from scripture, that moderate usury, or common interest, is not oppression in itself?

Another question, no less disputed than the preceding one, is that of usury, or lending at interest.

Solomon's declaration that, "The borrower is servant to the lender," was spoken without reference to usury.

A clergyman preaching against lending money on usury, asserted it to be as great a sin as murder.

It was also clearly understood that it was not wrongful to borrow at usury under certain conditions.

After the sale of commodities for money came the borrowing of money, resulting in interest and usury.

This cannot be done, except you introduce two several sorts of usury, a less and a greater.

Said the other, "after declaring your opinion that to lend money on usury, was as bad as murder?"

It is interesting to notice how closely the rules applying in the case of sales were applied to usury.

The reader will notice that the modern word "interest" is substituted for "usury" in nearly every passage.

Enriched by three bankruptcies, by continual thefts, by usury, the gold he acquired promptly seemed to disappear.

The confidence, the sense of treading air, borrowed at usury from his strength, were fast deserting him.

I could never understand formerly what you meant about usury, and about its being wrong to take interest.

This can not be done except you introduce two several sorts of usury, a less and a greater.

We may say as a general rule that usury laws do not offend any principles of public policy.

In modern usage usury is limited in its meaning to that measure of increase prohibited by the civil law.

From that time forward the term usury was restricted to excessive interest, and this alone was prohibited.

Then the conditions that render interest lawful, and mark it off from usury, readily came to obtain.

The young people's appetite for cherries and their zeal for pleasure had overcome their indignation at his usury.

That usury or interest must be held under the restraints of law is recognized in nearly all countries.

It is perhaps worth noting that the moral distinction between interest and usury is of very late development.

Thus, if accused of usury, he could prove that he had lent, without interest, considerable sums of money.

The prohibition of usury and of the taking of interest was another factor in the same circle of ideas.

All these forms of evasion are easily adopted with very little possibility of conviction, even when usury is charged.

Yet this system of settlement did not actually further colonization; it only bred wild speculation and usury.

Neither labor nor consumption could be resumed for want of circulation; usury reigned on the ruins of society.

That is because they say, trading is only like usury; and Allah has allowed trading and forbidden usury.

An act passed in 1571 violently condemns all usury; but permits ten per cent, interest to be paid.

Such usury as was practiced relied entirely on the land and the anticipated agricultural produce of the land.

Usurer, originally, was not a term of reproach; for interest and usury meant one and the same thing.

Sacrifice a little time in early childhood, and it will be repaid you with usury when your scholar is older.

They claimed that if they should accept our seeds we would come again and claim our own with usury.

This is what is called money interest; and when this interest is or appears excessive, it is called usury.

To defend usury they have pretended that capital was productive, and they have changed a metaphor into a reality.

The great men held a large portion of the community in dependence by means of advances at enormous usury.

These references to usury are in entire harmony with the expressions of David and Solomon, and of Jeremiah and Ezekiel.

He is not aware that every thrill of pleasure derived from excessive stimulating has to be paid for with usury.

The "Grey Town Observer," at one time the property of Michael O'Connor, was now Ebenezer Brown's, won by usury.

My reverence for him was deep and genuine; I prized his affection for me and returned it with usury.

This takes the form of protection against usury, against exploitation of dependents, especially if they are ignorant and inexperienced.

At one time they attempted thus to suppress usury and trial by ordeal, which at other times they allowed.

As a matter of fact much money was loaned and, legally or illegally, interest or usury was paid for it.

One subject led her on to another, and she became deeply interested in the questions of representation, land, education, usury.

The people hated and feared them, even whilst they borrowed from them at a rate of usury limited by statute.

In connection with usury laws, some confusion has arisen as to what constitutes a purchase and what constitutes a discount.

A law prohibiting usury at whatever rate of interest was still in force at the end of the eighteenth century.

Over sixty pounds it was, and your mother could never bear the thought of setting the money out to usury.

On this theory, the gain of usury is in the excess that can be secured of increase over the amounts lost.

Ruskin's Letters may be read, if I say that a clearer, more definite utterance on the usury question would be welcomed.

They perform a useful function in protecting their clients from the cruel usury which prevails, especially in the south.

The pressure of war and taxes and usury drove all into debt and into practical, if not technical, slavery.

I would first abolish legal interest and make it a crime as the Bible does to take usury in any form.

He may be the director and manager, but he so conducts his undertaking as to gather the usury from others.

He remembers the wrongs of his youth, and repays them with that usury which he himself would not take.

They are getting higher wages than ever, but the food usury and the blockade rob them of the increase.

The carcass of the animal that died of itself could be given them to eat, and they could be charged usury.

There were no laws limiting the rate of interest, and the rich lent to the poor at extravagant rates of usury.

This principle is capital, false property, interest, and usury, which by the old regime, is made to weigh upon labor.

The idea of robbing a poor Mexican of his ranch by nine years of usury did not appeal to him at all.

This fact is well shown in the ways by which usury laws fixing the legal rate of interest are evaded.

He suggests that usury might be suppressed by law, and urges that the taxes on food stuffs should be removed.

If any person in the troops under my command sells any article with usury, he shall receive one hundred lashes.

And from one end of that correspondence to the other, no human being even so much as mentioned the word "usury."

Besides, he is considered well-to-do and lends out money at usury which is contrary to the ordinary practice of the Poles.

The book then proceeds to describe weights and measures, and the rate of usury, which is put down as five percent.

Nothing develops more rapidly than a tear, and one which is neglected at the moment must later be repaired with usury.

In its origin the practice was not merely an evasion of the law against usury, but a convenient form of contract.

The temporal economy of this people should be to establish and encourage manufactures, and not to take usury for their money.

My first public speech was the revelation of a talent hidden in a napkin, and I set about putting it to usury.

By usury was formerly meant any payment for the loan of goods or money; now it means only excessive payments.

He pays usury in the price of the fuel which he burns, of the oil, gas or electric light in his home.

When others preserve and pay a price for the privilege, as in usury, the vital energy can continue production, indefinitely.

They find the taking of usury all but universal, and they endeavor to give the reasons for the prevailing custom.

Left to myself, I rose to my feet, and stood there in the circle as if the victim of some usury game.

What he borrows from the ancients he repays with usury of his own, in coin as good and almost as universally valuable

Many people at the present day think that the prohibition of usury was the same thing as the prohibition of interest.

I do not see, in like manner, how there can be law against gambling (against cheating there may), nor against usury.

Many of them attained to great wealth, for they had no conscience in usury, saying that they were spoiling the Egyptians.

I will put it to usury; and prove to your father, that he who loves his daughter is not unworthy of her.

In consideration of this risk, the lender is permitted to charge a high rate of interest without violating the law of usury.

Ben, on the contrary, had resolved to pay Joe in his own coin, with usury, whenever a fitting opportunity presented itself.

In other contracts we find the slave taking a mortgage and trading in onions and grain or employing his money in usury.

This discharge in bankruptcy is an act of mercy but the relief from the oppressions of usury would be an act of justice.