usuriousness

noun

usuriousness

noun

Etymology From usurious + -ness.

1

The quality of being usurious.

  • The clerk consented to come out when he perceived that he was being asked for by an old lady who was too infirm to walk; after which the Grandmother began to upbraid him at length, and with great vehemence, for his alleged usuriousness, and to bargain with him in a mixture of Russian, French, and German—I acting as interpreter.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter XII, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/XII):

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