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Usure vs Usury - What's the difference?

usure | usury |

As nouns the difference between usure and usury

is that usure is while usury is (countable) an exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.

usure

English

Noun

    • Foul usure and lucre of villainy'' — Chaucer.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    usury

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia usury)
  • (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,
    • "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."

    Related terms

    * usurer * usuress * usurial * usurious, usuriously, usuriousness

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