usury

Speech parts

1. usury - Noun

2. usury - Verb

Meaning

A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.

The practice of taking interest.

Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.

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Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit . Karl Marx

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. John Maynard Keynes

Now what has been said about the Jews is also to be understood about Cahorsins, and anyone else depending upon the depravity of usury. Thomas Aquinas

Completing a transaction with money borrowed at usury is a bad purchase. Sicilian Proverb

That usury is a sin some hold, but take for granted they've no gold. German Proverb

Folks say there is a lack of four sorts of people on earth: of priests, else one would not have six or seven benefices; of gentleman, else every boor would not want to be a squire; of whores, else married women and nuns would not carry on the trade; of Jews, else Christians would not practise usury. German Proverb

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