Meaning of feneration | Babel Free

Definitions

Lending money at interest; usury.

obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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