USURY


Meaning of USURY in English

noun

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A charge against him by the Privy Seal for usury was apparently avoided by means of a £12,000 bribe.

First, usury is not intrinsically wrong in the way that murder, adultery or theft are wrong.

He realises that Access make money through usury , yet he felt that 25 percent a month was going the pace a bit.

If the biblical fates go against him, Herluin will take all the vexation and shame out on Tutilo, with usury .

In addition to the tithing system and the gleaning laws, redistribution is also achieved through regulating the capital market by prohibiting usury .

In spite of ecclesiastical prohibitions on usury , the Lancastrians and their predecessors had certainly borrowed at interest, often surreptitiously.

The church condemns usury and the loaning of money at high interest.

This was because of the element of usury involved.

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