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/ˈkʌzənɪd͡ʒ/ · noun
(uncountable) The fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception..
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.
Use cozenage when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cozenage means (uncountable) The fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception..
Common synonyms include scam.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: […]
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