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usance

noun as in custom

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He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.

The plea of long usance would avail him little; another fine would be imposed.

The term "usance" is sometimes employed to express the period of running in foreign bills.

I have not wanted good words, and exceeding kind and regardful usance.

The customer himself who buys cotton in Bombay, or wherever it may be, acts according to the custom there to draw a bill to a certain usance.

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