What does usura mean?
Usura means (rare, archaic or poetic) Usury.
Usura
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Usura is a noun meaning (rare, archaic or poetic) Usury.
Meaning
(rare, archaic or poetic) Usury.
Example Sentences
Quite considerable sums, as the sources show, went at the death of rich people to religious institutions as conscience money, at times even back to former debtors as usura which had been unjustly taken from them.
In time past it was sors pro sorte – that is, the principal only for the principal; but now, beside that which is above the principal properly called Usura, we challenge Foenus – that is, commodity of soil and fruits of the earth, if not the ground itself.
With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting that design might cover their face, with usura hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall harpes et luz or where virgin receiveth message and halo projects from incision,[…]
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Related dictionary entries include usury, canker, francesca.
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Quite considerable sums, as the sources show, went at the death of rich people to religious institutions as conscience money, at times even back to former debtors as usura which had been unjustly taken from them.
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