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View synonyms for usurer
usurer
[ yoo-zher-er ]
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 /
noun
- a person who lends funds at an exorbitant rate of interest
- obsolete.a moneylender
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U was an Usurer, a miserable elf; V was a Vintner, who drank all himself.
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Here he plainly heard the screams redoubled, and, as he thought, the sounds came from the usurer's apartment.
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Well, I found the usurer just coming out of the great western entrance, heathen as he is, looking as pious as a pilgrim.
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The festivities last a long time; at intervals the voices of women can be heard outside hurling curses at the usurer.
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Particularly the base usurer who is allowed to get the unhappy Christian into his clutches nine times out of ten?
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