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Feneration

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(obsolete) Lending money at interest; usury..

Example Sentences

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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What does feneration mean?

Feneration means (obsolete) Lending money at interest; usury..

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How do you use feneration in a sentence?

Plutarch hath also made an expresse Treatise vpon the same, where he prooueth that by Nature we ought not to vse feneration and vsurie[…]

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