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usury <usury; usuries> N

usury

devouring usury REL

practice usury VB

take usury VB

usury law ECON

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For example, it is known that it relieved tax for widows and orphans, and protected the poor from the usury of the rich.
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Throughout the depression from 187378, he said that usury was the foremost political problem of the day.
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The effect was to gut every state law on usury, he says.
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His insistence on charging a low interest to protect the institution's permanency raised a controversy among the theologians who thought it promoted the continuance of usury.
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Records indicate that he was also prosecuted in the 1570s for illegal dealing in wool and for usury, or lending money with interest.
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Usury grew during the period, and few cases were prosecuted by the authorities.
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Our sovereign and rulers are at the bottom of all usury, thievery, and robbery; they take all created things into possession.
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It was evident that usury meant exploitation of the poor.
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Trade exchanges money for goods and usury creates money from money.
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He is said to have suppressed usury in the city during his term of office as mayor.
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