usuressn.
/juːʒəˈrɛs/, /ˈjuːʒərᵻs/, U.S. /ˈjuʒərəs/ rare.
A female usurer.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest > woman
usuress1631
gombeen-woman1894
1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman 54 A Religious Diuine comming to a certaine Vsuresse, to aduise her.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Woeckeresse, an Usuresse, or a woman Usurer.
1898 Daily Tel. 28 May 7/3 The defendants..evinced no little hostility to the usuress.
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n.1631- to obey obedience
- to obscure oneself from
- to observe a mediocrity
- to observe maigre
- to observe measure
- to observe measure a measure
- to observe measures
- to observe measures a measure
- to obtain one's jacket
- to obtain one's mind
- to obtain the jacket
- to occasionally build a fire under
- to occasionally cool out hots
- to occasionally go amok
- to occasionally push a person's nose in it
- to occupy the pulpit
- to occupy to repletion
- to off with
- to off with a person's head
- to offer battle
- to offer etc
- to offer for formerly to sale
- to offer for sale
- to offer odds
- to offer one's arm