Meaning of cozenage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception.
   uncountable
2. An instance of cozening; a scam.
   countable

Examples

“They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: […]”

“I ask⟳ you, What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with a baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter tomorrow?”

“When I receive⟳ your Lines, my dear Princess, and find⟳ there Expressions of a Passion; though Reason⟳ and my own⟳ Immerit tell⟳ me, it must not be for me; yet is the Cozenage so pleasing to me, that I (brib'd by my own⟳ Desires) believe⟳ them still before the other.”

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