Meanings
nounusuriousness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality of being usurious.
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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.
1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter XII, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/XII)
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usuriousness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/usuriousness
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“usuriousness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/usuriousness. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “usuriousness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/usuriousness.
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