usance

Example Sentences

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This man, then, having, after the usance of merchants, laid his plans, bought a great ship and freighting it all of his own monies with divers merchandise, repaired therewith to Cyprus.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John

Be warned that unless the 8 shillings and the usance thereof be forthcoming, the town-crier shall notify the sale of the sundry articles named.

From Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof by Head, Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey)

I'll lend no money gratis and bring down the rate of usance.

From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Major, Charles

And two usance is two months; reckoning not from the acceptance of the bill, but from the date of it.

From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Defoe, Daniel

Everything in it, tolerable or intolerable, will have but one use; and that use what our ancestors used to call usance or usury.

From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)