Usurer vs Usury - What's the difference?
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A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate.
* 1936 , , Gone with the Wind , chapter XLIII
(rare) Specifically, a male usurer.
(countable) An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.
(uncountable) The practice of lending money at such rates.
(uncountable, archaic) The practice of lending money at interest.
* 4th Century BCE , (rftranslator) , Book I, Part X,
Usury is a related term of usurer.
Usurer is a related term of usury.
As nouns the difference between usurer and usury
is that usurer is a person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate while usury is (countable) an exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.usurer
English
Noun
(en noun)- "You can go to the Carpetbag usurers if you want money."
Synonyms
* loan sharkUsage notes
usury
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Noun
(wikipedia usury)- "The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury , which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest."