Meaning of usure | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To commit usury.
   intransitive, obsolete
2. To cause to degenerate through usage.

Equivalents

Examples

“I turn⟳ no moneys in the public bank; Nor usure private.”

“Neither do we approve⟳ the policy of the other sections of the bill referred to us, which proposes to declare⟳ utterly void all interests by which any usurious or illegal rate of interest⟳ is usured or taken, and under which a party may, as has been elsewhere done, tempt a neighbor by an offer⟳ of a high rate of interest⟳ to loan him money, and then under the cover⟳ of this law, turn⟳ around and cheat him out of the whole of it.”

“Similarly, he must make⟳ restitution to those from whom he has stolen or robbed before those he has usured.”

“Before him lay⟳ the Groan debtor's prison, a stark gray block⟳ against the iron⟳ sky. Within its sheer walls were the mad, the indebted, those usured into servitude.”

“The maternal tongue is irrevocably supplanted by a usured tongue, the language of the truck driver and of the maid in Andalusia.”

“Now, however, preaching cannot help⟳ anymore. They have⟳ usured themselves deaf, blind, and senseless, and they hear⟳, see⟳, and feel⟳ nothing more.”

“This dialectic of "blindness and insight" (and if this insight of Paul de Man has been used up, usured too many times to have⟳ kept its luster, what other relation to blindness is concealed in the place⟳ of its cliché?) continues to structure⟳ our stories that unfold at the site / sight of blindness in the heart of the other's vision: Plato's sighting that of the cave-dwellers,' Derrida's exposing Plato's.”

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