Usury

(noun.) the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest.

(noun.) an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest.

格伦录入

• In his early days he was bitterly virtuous against usury; in his later he was devising ingenious schemes for safe usury. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Suffer your daughters, at least, to put their money to the exchangers, that they may be enabled at the Master's coming to pay Him His own with usury. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• This regulation, instead of preventing, has been found from experience to increase the evil of usury. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Usury developed largely in the last thousand years B.C. Traders needed accommodation; cultivators wished to anticipate their crops. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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