Etymology
Origin of cozenage
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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And when I deliver the Yale lectures to young ministers, I shall tell them that there is a blessed guile, a holy cozenage of the heart whereby they may win their people's souls by stealth.
From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles
It is true, he delivered it into his hand, desiring that he would hold it till he had sworn; but that artifice was a plain cozenage, and it was prettily discovered.
Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage which man can put upon the providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
Or what should I say of the oppressions, injustice, cozenage in trading and in merchandise, which yourselves know better than I can do how much they have abounded in the kingdom?
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
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