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cozenages

cozenages is the plural of cozenage.

Meaning of cozenage

Noun

cozenage (countable and uncountable, plural cozenages)

  1. (uncountable) The fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception.
    • They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: […]c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (countable) An instance of cozening; a scam.
    • 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.1646, John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea, Letter I, reprinted in The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays (Dublin: O. Nelson, 1766), p. 109

Questions about cozenages

What is cozenages the plural of?
Cozenages is the plural of cozenage.

Words near cozenages in the dictionary

  1. Cozbys
  2. coze
  3. cozed
  4. cozen
  5. cozenage
  6. cozenages
  7. cozened
  8. cozener
  9. cozeners
  10. cozeneth
  11. cozening

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