Etymology
Origin of cozenage
Vocabulary lists containing cozenage
Example Sentences
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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a curious phenomenon, and one that constantly recurs in the history of cozenage, how people who live by spoof fall victims so readily to spoofery.
From She Stands Accused by Victor MacClure
Hope never stooped to falser cozenage; we were to be rudely undeceived.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Is not it a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter to-morrow?
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
They say this town is full of cozenage; As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind.
From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William George Clark
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