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cosening

cosening is the obsolete form of cozening.

Meaning of cozening

Noun

cozening (plural cozenings)

  1. fraud; deception; the acts of one who cozens
    • Her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under, / Cozening the pillow of a lawful kiss;1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, l. 387

Forms of cosening

pluralcosenings

Questions about cosening

What is cosening the obsolete form of?
Cosening is the obsolete form of cozening.

Words near cosening in the dictionary

  1. coself
  2. cosemisimple
  3. cosen
  4. cosenage
  5. cosenages
  6. cosening
  7. cosenings
  8. cosensitization
  9. cosensitizations
  10. cosentential
  11. cosentient

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cosening (page history and authors); cozening (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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