Usurer
['juːʒ(ə)rə] or ['juʒərɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest.
Inputed by Joe--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender.
(n.) One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.
Editor: Meredith
Unserious Contents or Definition
To find yourself a usurer in your dreams, foretells that you will be treated with coldness by your associates, and your business will decline to your consternation. If others are usurers, you will discard some former friend on account of treachery.
Typist: Nadine
Examples
- Do you think I am a Jew-usurer, seeking good investment in land? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Yet, I would have sworn thy thought had been more on the old usurer's money bags, than on the black eyes of the daughter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The introduction of money[230] probably increased the facilities of the usurer and the difficulties of the borrowing debtor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A Jewish magician might be the subject of equal abhorrence with a Jewish usurer, but he could not be equally despised. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- If the mere climate made a Venetian of Shylock, why does Shakespeare point at him as an usurer? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Yet for all this vigour on the part of the senatorial usurers, landgrabbers, and forestallers, the hungry and the anxious were still insurgent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Free of my commission, I shall be able to compound with some small usurers who will hear of nothing but their bond now--Vholes says so. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typed by Eugenia