Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

feneration

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fen-er-a-tion
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Lending money at interest; usury.

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Plutarch hath also made an expresse Treatise vpon the same, where he prooueth that by Nature we ought not to vse feneration and vsurie[…]"
"True love and friendship hath respect onely to his friends necessitie, without merchandize or feneration."
"[…]and what vices therein it [sc. the hare] figured; that is, not only pusillanimity and timidity from its temper, feneration or usury from its fecundity and superfetation, but from this mixture of sexes, unnaturall venery and degenerous effemination."

Etymology

From Latin faenerationem, from faenerare.

Usage

Questions

What does feneration mean?: Lending money at interest; usury.
Where does feneration come from?: From Latin faenerationem, from faenerare.

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