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usurer

[ yoo-zher-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person who lends money and charges interest, especially at an exorbitant or unlawful rate; moneylender.
Obsolete. a person who lends money at interest.

usurer

/ ˈjuːʒərə /

Origin of usurer¹

1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French < Medieval Latin ūsūrārius, equivalent to ūsūr ( ia ) usury + Latin -ārius -ary

U was an Usurer, a miserable elf; V was a Vintner, who drank all himself.

Here he plainly heard the screams redoubled, and, as he thought, the sounds came from the usurer's apartment.

Well, I found the usurer just coming out of the great western entrance, heathen as he is, looking as pious as a pilgrim.

The festivities last a long time; at intervals the voices of women can be heard outside hurling curses at the usurer.

Particularly the base usurer who is allowed to get the unhappy Christian into his clutches nine times out of ten?

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