Usury Synonyms

yo͝ozhə-rē
An exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. robbery
  2. exploitation
  3. stealing
  4. vigorish
  5. lending at high interest
  6. banking

Words Related to Usury

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. theft
  2. simony
  3. idolatry

Usury Sentence Examples

  • Meantime much evil arises from usury in the poorer districts.

  • Restrictions on their occupations were everywhere common, and as the Church forbade Christians to engage in usury, this was the only trade open to the Jews.

  • It is not unlike the procedure of the canonists and casuists of the middle ages with regard to the doctrine of usury, by which the doctrine was to all appearances preserved intact while in reality it was stripped of all its original meaning by innumerable distinctions " over-curious and precise."

  • In 1872 a correspondent had remonstrated with him in vain as to taking "usury," i.e.

  • But, as something can everywhere be made by the use of money, something ought everywhere to be paid for the use of it," and will in fact be paid for it; and the prohibition will only heighten the evil of usury by increasing the risk to the lender.

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