Feneration
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Feneration is a noun meaning (obsolete) Lending money at interest; usury.
Meaning
(obsolete) Lending money at interest; usury.
Example Sentences
True love and friendship hath respect onely to his friends necessitie, without merchandize or feneration.
Plutarch hath also made an expresse Treatise vpon the same, where he prooueth that by Nature we ought not to vse feneration and vsurie[…]
[…]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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include usury, oker, gavel, usuary, chevisance, faineantise.
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