usuriousness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"The clerk consented to come out when he perceived that he was being asked for by an old lady who was too infirm to walk; after which the Grandmother began to upbraid him at length, and with great vehemence, for his alleged usuriousness, and to bargain with him in a mixture of Russian, French, and German—I acting as interpreter."

From usurious + -ness.

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