usury|usuries in English

noun

[u·su·ry || 'juːʒərɪ]

lending of money at exorbitant interest rates

Use "usury|usuries" in a sentence

1. Savonarola, who accuses them of usury.

2. He used to practise usury frequently.

3. He made money by practicing usury.

4. They lend out money on usury.

5. The interest of usury is unfairly high.

6. Ah, the Savonarola calls it usury.

7. Simony, usury, public lechery, and poisoning, perhaps.

8. In commerce and usury field, Jew is more activity.

9. He returned her love and devotion with usury.

10. Usury is interest in excess of a legal rate.

11. These recommendations go far beyond the stale usury debates.

12. This was because of the element of usury involved.

13. In medieval times, it was illegal for Christians to practise usury.

14. You have lived in usury, Florence, like pigs in heat.

15. The church condemns usury and the loaning of money at high interest.

16. First, usury is not intrinsically wrong in the way that murder, adultery or theft are wrong.

17. These men were exacting usury from their fellow Jews in violation of the Mosaic Law.

18. This semislave type of tenancy was inseparable from the system of usury practiced in China.

19. But what about the cant of usury and the mode of treating that he ought to know?

20. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

21. After verse 27 is read, explain that usury means interest (income gained from investing or lending money).

22. 29 In spite of ecclesiastical prohibitions on usury, the Lancastrians and their predecessors had certainly borrowed at interest, often surreptitiously.

23. The application of the usury rate concept has been removed from loans made for commercial or professional activities.

24. Set up last century by charitable foundations to support local cultural activities and to combat usury, they have become big business.

25. If the biblical fates go against him, Herluin will take all the vexation and shame out on Tutilo, with usury.