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cozenage

American  
[kuhz-uh-nij] / ˈkʌz ə nɪdʒ /

noun

  1. the practice of cozening.

  2. the condition of being cozened.


Etymology

Origin of cozenage

First recorded in 1555–65; cozen + -age


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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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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