cozenage

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By similar cozenage he had managed to extract $1,100 from the company.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their system of cozenage is not only applied to persons outside the profession, from whom they expect material gains; it is always at work to take in and delude the members of the guild.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo

David suspected this cozenage in himself, when he cries out, Oh!

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James

Well, if he be in prison, I'll have warrants To 'tach my daughter till the law be tried, For I will sue him upon cozenage.

From The London Prodigal; "by William Shakespeare." as it was played by the King's Majesties servants. by Unknown

Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage which man can put upon the providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various